Chris Clark, a prominent litigation partner at Latham & Watkins who has been representing Hunter Biden in a high-profile tax investigation, has left the elite firm to join boutique Smith Villazor in New York.

With his arrival, the boutique has been renamed Clark Smith Villazor, the partners announced Thursday. He joins Patrick J. Smith and Rodney Villazor, who launched the white-collar litigation boutique in 2016 after leaving DLA Piper.