On the Move

Vinson & Elkins LLP has announced a significant expansion of its Insolvency and Reorganization practice in New York and Houston with the addition of six prominent bankruptcy lawyers. Joining the firm's New York office as partners are Denis Cronin, Jane Vris, and Dov Kleiner, formerly of Cronin & Vris. J. Ronald Trost and Larry Cherkis, also of Cronin & Vris, are joining V&E as Counsel in New York. Prior to forming their own firm, Cronin, Vris, Kleiner and Cherkis were with Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. Trost is a past chair of the National Bankruptcy Conference and one of the primary architects of the current U.S. Bankruptcy Code. In addition, the firm also announced that Harry Perrin, co-head of the energy-focused investment bank Petrie Parkman's Restructuring Business and a former bankruptcy partner at the law firm Weil Gotshal & Manges, is joining the firm's Houston office as a partner.

Herrick, Feinstein LLP of New York has announced that Gary Eisenberg has joined the firm as partner in Financial Restructuring/ Bankruptcy Practice Group. Prior to joining Herrick Feinstein, Eisenberg practiced as a partner with Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf in its Bankruptcy, Creditor's Rights and Workouts Practice Group and Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution Group.

Baker & McKenzie LLP has named David Heroy, Carmen Lonstein and Bruce Lithgow as partners in the firm's Financial Restructuring, Creditors Rights & Bankruptcy practice in its Chicago office. Heroy, Lonstein and Lithgow all come to the firm from Bell Boyd & Lloyd, LLP, where Heroy was the founder and long-time chair of its Bankruptcy Department. Lonstein was its recent chair. They typically represent statutory, court-appointed committees of creditors and equity holders, purchasers and owners of distressed assets, plus various creditors and other interested parties in large, complex corporate restructurings and Chapter 11 cases.