A flurry of law firm hiring activity has put a number of New York-based restructuring and bankruptcy partners on the move, with Hogan Lovells becoming the latest to pick up a specialist in the practice area after recent hires by Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Latham & Watkins and O’Melveny & Myers.

On Monday, Hogan Lovells announced the arrival of Douglas Taber, a former lead executive counsel for restructuring and banking at GE Capital. Taber has joined the law firm’s bankruptcy, restructuring and insolvency practice as a partner in New York, a move that the firm said would bolster its expertise and build on other recent hires on the other side of the U.S. In April, Hogan Lovells added Rick Wynne, Bennett Spiegel and Erin Brady to the firm’s Los Angeles office—a three-partner group, led by Wynne, who decamped from Jones Day.

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