Fried Frank’s New Bankruptcy Practice Has Unlikely Member: A COO

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Fried Frank is making a push to build a top-flight debtor-side bankruptcy practice, and doing it with a new role in the lineup: a chief operating officer.

The Wall Street firm last month hired Ben Schrag as COO of its new restructuring practice. He’s tasked with growing the group alongside global restructuring chair Rachel Strickland, who joined at the same ...