Willkie Farr & Gallagher is doubling down on the West Coast with the addition of former Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher partner Michael Li-Ming Wong, who will co-lead the firm’s white-collar practice.

Wong, who was based in Gibson Dunn’s San Francisco and Palo Alto offices, noted that Willkie Farr has been a New York institution for more than a century, but it has only had a presence in California since 2018.