Clifford Chance (CC) has lost six partners from its New York arm with five insolvency partners quitting for Kaye Scholer.

The team is being led by Margot Schonholtz, the US head of insolvency and restructuring. Schonholtz was one of the few partners awarded ‘super-point’ status by CC last year, granting her a pay package above the top of the London-based giant’s lockstep.