Longtime law firm-facing bank executive Jeff Grossman, a veteran of both Citi and Wells Fargo, has joined Cooley to fill the newly created role of chief strategy and legal practice officer.

Grossman elected to leave his role as head of business development and client strategy at Citi Private Bank’s Law Firm Group in late 2020 and began conversations with Cooley, a firm that he’d worked with for years. He had returned to Citi in the middle of 2018, after leaving in 2004 to set up a law firm banking group at Wells Fargo.