Tori Silas has left Cox Enterprises, where she was senior counsel and the company’s first privacy officer, to join Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough as a partner.

Silas, who started at Nelson Mullins on Monday, is the first member of its Atlanta office to focus on tech transactions and procurement. The national group is led by Jason Epstein in Nashville and P. Mason Hogue Jr. in the firm’s Columbia, South Carolina, headquarters.