Vincent Cordo started his career in law firms like Reed Smith and Squire Sanders, but over the past six years, he’s made his name in-house with the Shell Oil Co.—most recently as its central legal operations officer and head of global integration and compliance for Shell New Energies. While there, he helped grow the organization’s legal ops function, even winning an LTN Innovation Award in the process.

But now, Cordo has returned to his law firm roots. In a move that occurred in September but was only recently announced, Cordo has joined Holland & Knight as the firm’s chief client development and relationship officer. There, he will report to Douglas Wright, the firm’s operations and finance partner, and work out of the firm’s Florida base.