White & Case has hired a pair of partners from Ropes & Gray, including the co-chair of the firm’s restructuring practice, Keith Wofford, furthering recent efforts to bulk up its bankruptcy firepower through lateral pickups from rivals.
Former New York state attorney general candidate Wofford, who also served as managing partner of Ropes & Gray’s New York office, and Stephen Moeller-Sally will join the firm’s growing global financial restructuring and insolvency practice.
In October, the firm hired a trio of partners from Sidley Austin, including the co-leaders of its bankruptcy practice, Jessica Boelter and Bojan Guzina. It also hired litigator ...