Eight months after officially opening an office in San Francisco, Baker Botts bolstered its new base in the Bay Area this week by hiring a pair of Colorado-based patent litigation partners in Wayne Stacy and Sarah Guske.

Both lawyers head to Baker Botts from Cooley, where they worked out of their former firm’s office in the Denver suburb of Broomfield. Guske has already relocated to the Bay Area, while Stacy expects to fully transition to the region within six months. Their first day at Baker Botts was Wednesday.