Ropes & Gray has added Matthew Roose, a restructuring and insolvency partner at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, to its business restructuring practice in New York.

“Ropes & Gray is a tremendous law firm with a great reputation,” Roose said. “It has an existing strong restructuring practice and I thought this was a great place for me to come to grow my existing practice,” he said.

Roose, who first joined Fried Frank in 2006 after graduating from law school, works with creditors and creditor groups in restructurings in and out of court.

Over the years, he's represented major creditors in several high-profile bankruptcies, including the Chapter 11 filings of Texas utility giant Energy Future Holdings, oil-field services company Forbes Energy Services, Extended Stay Hotels, and Washington Mutual Inc.

Roose said a deep bench of talent and a strong creditor-side practice drew him to Ropes & Gray. The firm recently advised Gawker Media Group in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy following a $140 million verdict against the media company in a lawsuit filed by former professional wrestler Hulk Hogan.

“[It's] everything you would sort of look for when you're moving to a place to build and grow your own practice,” said Roose, who became a partner at Fried Frank in 2016.

Roose isn't the first Fried Frank partner to decamp for Ropes & Gray in recent years, following a strategic realignment of Fried Frank's practice area focus, a tripling of its nonequity partner ranks and the adoption of a partial black box compensation model.

Fried Frank partner Lisa Bebchick joined Ropes & Gray in 2017 as a partner in its business and securities litigation practice, reuniting with former Fried Frank litigators David Hennes and Gregg Weiner and M&A partner John Sorkin, who joined the firm in 2015.

Ropes & Gray, meanwhile, added Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer capital markets partner Paul Tropp in New York earlier this summer, and last week it added King & Spalding partner Matthew Jacobson in California.

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