Troy Zander, a venture debt finance partner at DLA Piper in Silicon Valley and San Diego, is headed to Cooley. The move comes three months after Zander was named managing partner of DLA Piper’s offices in San Diego.
DLA Piper has strong roots in the region stemming from San Diego-based predecessor firm Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich, which merged in 2005 with Baltimore-based Piper Rudnick and the U.K.’s DLA to form its current iteration. Zander joined DLA Piper that same year from Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, a firm he headed to a year earlier from what was then still Gray Cary.
