Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP announced the addition of an established and highly respected three partner team to strengthen the firm’s global restructuring practice and continue the expansion of its U.S. offering. The partners will be based in the New York office providing advice to clients globally.

Mark Liscio, Madlyn Primoff and Scott Talmadge have worked together for over a decade and will join Freshfields on April 26, 2017. They are each highly respected in the U.S. market for their bankruptcy expertise having advised institutional lenders, funds and investors in connection with many of the most prominent and complex global bankruptcy and restructuring cases, including recent cases involving Paragon Offshore Drilling and Arch Coal.

Commenting on these hires, Ken Baird, global head of the Freshfields restructuring practice, said: “I am absolutely delighted to have the team join the firm. Mark, Madlyn and Scott each bring market-leading experience in US bankruptcies and restructurings to our existing international team of 20 restructuring partners. With these highly respected, strategic hires, we are pleased to be able to present a truly global offering to clients across the restructuring spectrum that no other firm can match.”

Peter Lyons, U.S. managing partner at Freshfields, added: “These important strategic hires build on our success in the US market. The notable expertise that Mark, Madlyn and Scott bring to Freshfields will significantly strengthen and expand the global reach of the firm’s market-leading restructuring practice. This established and highly respected team also strategically enhances our US offering, especially as we look to advise clients involved in increasingly sophisticated and complex restructurings and insolvencies.”

Freshfields’ U.S. practice has more than doubled in size over the past 10 years and now comprises almost 200 attorneys in total. Over the past two years alone, Freshfields has appointed more than 10 leading attorneys to its US partnership.