NEW YORK’S 35-lawyer bankruptcy boutique Berlack, Israels & Liberman has been acquired by Boston’s Brown Rudnick Freed & Gesmer. The combined firm, to be known as Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels, will have a total of about 225 lawyers.

Berlack Israels has represented official and unofficial committees of creditors, bondholders and equityholders in a number of major bankruptcies and reorganizations.