LOS ANGELES—Law firm Goodwin Procter has named Dean Pappas as chair of the firm's Los Angeles office. Pappas will succeed former chair and founding partner Lewis Feldman. In this new role, Pappas will oversee the firm's operations and its 35-attorney office.

"I am honored to have established Goodwin in California and Los Angeles, and I've not been without great contributors to our subsequent success, among them Dean Pappas,” Feldman tells GlobeSt.com. “Dean is at the perfect place in his career to take the helm of L.A.; he's an L.A. native, deeply experienced, well regarded as best in class and has the internal and external relationships to be extremely effective in his new role. I will help him in every way I can, which I suspect means mostly getting out of the way so Dean can take us to the next level."

Feldman, who recently moderated an investment markets panel at the annual Milken Institute Global Conference, will continue to lead the firm's public finance practice and will develop the firm's real estate capital markets practice along with an online crowdfunding platform. Pappas is currently a partner in the real estate capital markets group, where he focuses on real estate corporate transactions.

Pappas will pick up where Feldman left off, working to expand the Goodwin Procter Los Angeles office. “Specifically, my goal is to expand the office around the firm's featured practices and strengths—securities and white collar, IP and general litigation, technology/venture capital, private equity, real estate capital markets and banking through the strategic addition of lateral partners in key practices and organic growth from within the office,” Pappas tells GlobeSt.com.