Dechert has brought on board a pair of bankruptcy attorneys in New York from Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, with Doug Mannal and Stephen Zide becoming the sixth and seventh partners to join the firm’s global financial restructuring practice in the past three years.

Mannal and Zide have both spent the past 16 years at Kramer Levin, and the firm has been Zide’s only professional home since he finished his clerkship. The pair represent both official unsecured creditors’ committees and ad hoc creditor groups in Chapter 11 cases.