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By ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |

McDermott Will & Emery LLP has announced that Jeremy R. Johnson has joined the firm's New York office as a partner in the Restructuring & Insolvency practice. Previously with DLA Piper, Johnson has a wide-ranging restructuring practice with experience advising domestic and international clients in insolvency proceedings, out-of-court restructurings and insolvency issues in non-distressed transactions. He has served as counsel to corporate debtors, committees, creditors, purchasers of distressed assets, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and other stakeholders in numerous bankruptcy cases, with a particular emphasis on corporate debtor and buy-side asset sale representation.

Morrison & Foerster has named Brett Miller as managing partner of the firm's New York office. Miller, a partner in the firm's Bankruptcy and Restructuring Group, succeeds Charles (“Chet”) L. Kerr, a partner in the firm's litigation department, who has led the office since 2008. Miller is currently representing Louis J. Freeh, Chapter 11 Trustee for MF Global, which, with $41 billion in assets at the time of filing, is the largest bankruptcy filing of 2011 and the eighth largest in U. S. history. Miller also recently represented the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the Chapter 11 of the Los Angeles Dodgers.

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