Former DLA Piper Miami litigation chair Angela Crawford and Rolls-Royce in-house counsel Lila Acharya have formed the firm Crawford & Acharya, a corporate compliance boutique based out of Boston and Miami.

Crawford, who is based in Miami, spent 12 years at DLA Piper, rising to the head of the firm’s Miami litigation practice in 2017. Before that, she spent a year as an Assistant U.S. attorney in Illinois and five years as a litigator at Kirkland & Ellis.