The Busiest Lawyer in Crypto is Turning His Attention to FTX

It all started in mid-June when Joshua Sussberg got a phone call from David Brosgol, general counsel for cryptocurrency exchange Voyager Digital.

Sussberg, a partner at Kirkland & Ellis in Manhattan, had never met Brosgol and had zero experience with crypto—he’d never even owned Bitcoin.

The troubled company was in the market for a restructuring lawyer. Sussberg, 44, is at or near the top of most lists.

First, he had some questions.

“What is Voyager Digital, and what do you do?” Sussberg said he asked. “I got a crash course in crypto.”

That was the start of an education that ...