As the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and other regulators continue to increase their scrutiny of digital assets, Perkins Coie added a freshly departed SEC official to its blockchain and digital currency group this week.

Valerie Dahiya, who was a branch chief in the SEC's division of trading and markets, joined the firm as a partner in Washington, D.C., Perkins Coie said Tuesday.

Before assuming her most recent role in 2014, Dahiya was special counsel in the same division, senior counsel in the SEC's office of compliance inspections and examinations, and a regulatory analyst at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.