Mr. Stephen A. Donato

Stephen A. Donato is co-chair of Bond, Schoeneck & King PLLC's Business Restructuring, Creditors' Rights and Bankruptcy Group in Syracuse, N.Y. He has represented clients for over 30 years concerning all aspects of financial restructuring, including financial institutions, secured and unsecured creditors, commercial debtors, SIPA trustees in certain liquidation proceedings, health care institutions including hospitals and nursing homes, creditors' committees, debtor-in-possession financing lenders, municipali- ties, bondholders and purchasers of distressed businesses. Mr. Donato is a founder and director, former program director and former membership director of the Upstate New York Turnaround Management Association. He also currently serves on the advisory board of ABI's Mid-Atlantic Bankruptcy Work- shop, and is a founder and first president of the Central New York Bankruptcy Bar Association. Mr. Donato lectures frequently for ABI, the New York State Bar Association, the Turnaround Management Association and various business clients concerning financial restructuring matters. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America for 2015 in its Bankruptcy and Creditor/Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Re- organization Law, Litigation-Bankruptcy categories and was featured in 2013 in for Bankruptcy and Creditor/Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law and Litigation-Bankruptcy categories. He was also named the Best Lawyers' 2013 Syracuse Litigation-Bankruptcy Lawyer of the Year and the Best Lawyers' 2012 Syracuse Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law Lawyer of the Year. Previously, Mr. Donato clerked for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of New York. He received his B.A. cum laude from the State University of New York at Platts- burgh and his J.D. cum laude in 1983 from Creighton University, and also attended the London School of Economics in 1981.