International financing and mergers and acquisitions attorney Julian Zou has joined Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch’s Silicon Valley office as its latest partner. Zou counsels corporate clients from startups to multinational corporations on venture capital, M&A, foreign direct investment—both inbound into and outbound from Asia—finance and banking. His clients include life sciences and technology companies. As part of his cross-border Asia Pacific practice Julian has experience facilitating compliance with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) as well as Chinese anti-bribery law counseling and investigations.

Winston & Strawn announced the addition of partner Bobby Malhotra in the Los Angeles office. Malhotra joins the litigation department; he brings an emphasis on e-discovery, information governance, analytics and artificial intelligence. He focuses his practice on navigating complex e-discovery issues in large, high-stakes litigation and regulatory matters, including e-discovery preparedness, planning and execution, as well as information privacy and data security. He has served as an e-discovery adviser and outside discovery counsel to multiple Fortune 50 technology and financial services clients and provided guidance in connection with legally defensible and standardized companywide discovery practices.