Longtime Hogan Lovells tax partner Jeff Tolin has joined Cooley’s team in New York, where he expects to shift his practice to focus on representing growing startups.

Tolin’s practice has focused on helping clients reduce taxes related to mergers, spinoffs, joint ventures, stock and bond offerings and their everyday business. In an interview Monday, his first day at Cooley and the firm’s first day at its new Hudson Yards offices, Tolin said Cooley’s work for clients in the tech and life-sciences industries dovetailed with his own.

Jeff Tolin Jeff Tolin, with Cooley.