Jones Day Gouldens IP partner Alison Crofts has left the firm to join the London arm of Washington DC firm Crowell & Moring.

Crofts, who started at the US firm as counsel this week, was head of IP at Jones Day’s London arm prior to its merger with Gouldens in February. Crowell & Moring plans to grow its 10-lawyer London and Brussels offices to 30 lawyers each by 2006.