Eight months after bringing a team of corporate partners from Morrison & Foerster into its Washington, D.C., office, King & Spalding is formally opening its doors in Northern Virginia.

Charlie Katz, who will lead the new office, said that when he joined the firm with Larry Yanowitch, Tom Knox and Jeremy Schropp in October, the plan was always to have a clear presence in the tech-rich suburbs of the nation’s capital.