Legal industry titan Latham & Watkins, soaring from a financially successful 2017 despite the recent and abrupt exit of its former leader, has hired corporate and emerging companies partner Todd Carpenter in San Francisco.

Carpenter spent the past 18 years at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, which he joined straight out of law school at the height of the dot-com boom in 2000. During his nearly two decades at the Silicon Valley stalwart, Carpenter has developed a practice focused on advising high-growth private companies and venture investors in the technology and life sciences sectors.