Manatt, Phelps & Phillips has picked up a pair of veteran intellectual property litigators from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan in California in an expansion of the firm’s technology and IP litigation practice.

Partner Amar Thakur, who represents telecommunications, software, medical device and semiconductor companies in IP disputes, will work out of Manatt’s San Francisco and Orange County offices. Patent litigator Bruce Zisser, who was of counsel at Quinn, is joining in Los Angeles. The pair started as partners at Manatt on Wednesday.