Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has announced that Nagendra “Nick” Setty has joined the firm as a partner in its intellectual property group. Setty will split his time between the firm’s San Francisco and Silicon Valley offices. Over the past 20 years, he has served as lead counsel in more than 150 IP cases spanning a broad range of technologies, including software, electronics, semiconductor and life sciences, and has tried over 20 IP cases to verdict. Before joining Orrick, Setty served as co-chair of Sheppard Mullin’s intellectual property practice and, before that, was managing partner of Fish & Richardson’s Atlanta office, which he opened in 2006 and subsequently grew to over 30 lawyers.