Haynes Boone has appointed Linton Bloomberg as a partner in its restructuring practice in London, extending the firm's United States restructuring bench into the United Kingdom at partner level in that discipline.
Bloomberg joins from Reed Smith and will head the London restructuring team. He arrives with more than 25 years of experience in complex restructurings, insolvencies and the disputes that follow them, advising financial institutions, insolvency practitioners, private equity sponsors and corporate boards.
His career has taken in three of the larger names in the field. Before that he practised at Weil, Gotshal and Manges and at Jones Day. He has acted on matters arising from the collapse of Lehman Brothers and of MF Global, two of the defining insolvencies of the past two decades, and his practice spans lender representation, distressed mergers and acquisitions, distressed transactions and finance.
He has also spent time on the official side of the table. Bloomberg completed a secondment with the Financial Stability Division of the Bank of England, advising on restructuring frameworks, financial stability and regulatory questions, an assignment that gives him an unusual view of how supervisory thinking on resolution has developed.
The firm framed the hire around the convergence of the British and American restructuring markets. English restructuring plans have become a more common tool for cross border groups, while Texas has established itself as a venue of choice for large Chapter 11 filings, and the firm, which is headquartered in Texas, sits on both sides of that traffic.
Nick Davis, managing partner of the London office, called the appointment an important strategic hire for the office. Kelli Norfleet, who chairs the restructuring practice, said the new partner adds immediate depth to the restructuring bench.
The hire is the sixth partner addition to the London office during the year, a run of lateral recruitment that has steadily broadened what began as a smaller outpost of a United States firm. The restructuring practice works across energy, technology, retail, healthcare and manufacturing, and has acted in recent Chapter 11 restructurings in the retail and materials sectors.
The appointment was announced on 12 October 2026. No predecessor was named and the firm presented the role as an addition to the London partnership rather than a succession.
For the firm the move answers a structural question that American practices with London offices have been circling for some years, which is whether to service English law restructuring work through local counsel or to carry it in house. Recruiting a partner who has run the English side of major cross border insolvencies, and who has sat inside the central bank that supervises many of the counterparties, points firmly to the second answer.
