King & Spalding has boosted its national IP litigation practice with the hire of two partners from Goodwin Procter.
Andrew Ong and Amadou Kilkenny Diaw are joining the Atlanta-based firm in San Francisco and Washington DC respectively.
The hires come hard on the heels of the arrival of another notable Goodwin IP recruit, renowned technology litigator and trial lawyer Neel Chatterjee, who joined in July to co-lead the business litigation group’s IP team. He is based in the firm’s Silicon Valley office.
The trio’s arrival promises to add heft to the firm’s IP practice, which is ranked in band four, alongside Goodwin, in legal directory Chambers and Partners’ nationwide listing.
Damien Marshall, co-leader of King & Spalding’s business litigation practice group, said: “Expanding and elevating our IP litigation and technology industry capabilities nationwide is a priority for King & Spalding. The addition of this team is a big step in that process.”
Before joining King & Spalding, Ong spent more than eight years at Goodwin Procter, rising to the position of partner. Prior to that, he served as a law clerk in the Northern District of California for almost a year. He also completed a five-year stint as an associate at Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, among other roles.
His practice focuses on complex technology disputes involving patents, trade secrets and contracts for high-tech companies. He regularly practices in federal courts and before the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). He has experience in technologies, including network devices, design automation software, data storage and semiconductor chips.
Diaw arrives at King & Spalding after a four-year tenure as a partner at Goodwin Procter, before which he spent five years at patent litigation specialists RuyakCherian (now Cherian). He began his legal career at Winston & Strawn.
He represents defendants and plaintiffs in federal courts, at the USPTO’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and in arbitrations and mediations in disputes including patent infringement and trade secret matters.
Diaw’s experience spans technologies including cloud computing, hardware and software, wireless networking and communications. His clients have included Fortune 100 companies in the computing and telecommunications industries as well as emerging and high-growth technology companies.
A Goodwin Procter spokesperson commented: “We wish Andrew Ong and Amadou Kilkenny Diaw the best.”
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