Travers Smith has hired a partner from Fried Frank in London as its new head of restructuring and insolvency.
Mandip Englund will join Travers Smith’s finance team in May after four years as a partner at Fried Frank. She has advised clients including boards of companies, private equity sponsors, credit funds and distressed funds, insolvency practitioners, pension trustees and clearing banks/investment banks.
Earlier in her career Englund was a partner at Reed Smith and spent a decade at Linklaters, having trained and qualified at DLA Piper, where she spent five years in the firm’s Birmingham office.
Charlie Bischoff, who heads Travers’ finance practice, said Englund’s arrival would enhance his team and take the firm’s insolvency practice “to the next level”.
He added: “I have no doubt that she will be a strong cultural fit, and bring renewed energy, direction and potential to our team and the wider firm.”
Englund’s expertise spans the full spectrum of restructuring and insolvency matters, including financial restructuring, distressed investing and formal insolvency. She has also contributed extensively to professional networks ranging from the Insolvency Lawyers Association to the International Women’s Restructuring and Insolvency Confederation.
Travers said Englund would work closely with the finance and corporate practices and the wider firm, including the dispute resolution practice for contentious matters.
Her hire follows recent arrivals at Travers including infrastructure debt partner Ryan Ayrton, who joined last September from Watson Farley & Williams. More recently the firm has also recruited private equity partner Jeremy Dennison from Livingbridge and senior consultant John Daghlian in the funds group from Akin.
The hires follow senior departures including head of incentives, Mahesh Veria, exiting to join A&O Shearman, and Lucie Cawood, the firm’s head of private equity, leaving for personal reasons. The firm also recently announced it would close its Paris office while opening a new office in Brussels.
The firm’s managing partner, Edmund Reed, welcomed Englund, saying: “Continuing to strengthen our partnership across the full spectrum of the firm is a key focus for my second term as managing partner.”
Reed said the firm would make further lateral hires, alongside promoting partners internally, to ensure “we have the right teams in place to provide our clients with the bespoke, premium service which our clients value so highly”.
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