Steptoe & Johnson is the latest firm aiming to strengthen its restructuring practice, bringing aboard new leader Jeffrey Reisner from McDermott Will & Emery.

Reisner, who will be based in Los Angeles and New York, spent less than a year as global co-head of McDemott’s restructuring and insolvency practice. He joined that firm from Irell & Manella, where he worked for nearly two decades, in September.