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Brown Rudnick LLP announced that H. Jeffrey Schwartz has joined the firm's Bankruptcy & Corporate Restructuring Group in the New York office. Schwartz has an international practice representing debtors, committees, monoline insurers, distressed debt funds, hedge funds, and other parties in large, complex and sophisticated reorganization cases. He has extensive trial experience as well as a long track record of successful out-of-court restructurings in the U.S. and throughout Europe. In addition, Schwartz serves as director on numerous boards of both private and publicly traded corporations. He was previously the chair of DLA Piper's Restructuring Practice Group, and prior to that was co-leader of the Global Business Restructuring & Reorganization Practice Group at Dechert LLP.
David von Saucken has joined Kaye Scholer LLP as a partner in the firm's London and Frankfurt offices. Previously a partner with Ashurst LLP, von Saucken focuses on advising funds and investment banks in special situations with a particular emphasis on CMBS and other complex real estate-related restructurings. He also counsels on debt, hedge funds and private equity investments in performing German situations. von Saucken is qualified to practice in Germany, England and Wales.
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