Ms. Rachel Ehrlich Albanese

Rachel Ehrlich Albanese is chair of DLA Piper LLP?s U.S. Restructuring Practice and a partner in its New York office. She has more than 20 years of experience representing debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, equityholders, purchasers of distressed assets, and other parties in a wide range of restructuring matters, including chapter 11 cases, out-of-court workouts, cross-border insolvency proceedings and title III of PROMESA, the law governing Puerto Rico?s restructuring. Ms. Albanese has been involved in Puerto Rico?s current restructuring efforts since their earliest days, when she participated in dozens of meetings with U.S. Congress members and staff to develop the law that ultimately became PROMESA. Subsequently, she has been instrumental in many of the firm?s PROMESA-related matters. Ms. Albanese previously served as co-hiring partner of the firm?s New York office. Ms. Albanese was selected by Crain?s New York Business as a 2022 Notable Woman in Law and recognized by Chambers and Partners in 2021 for Bankruptcy and Restructuring in New York. She is an active member of ABI, the International Women?s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation and the Turnaround Management Association. After law school, she clerked for Hon. John W. Bissell, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. Ms. Albanese is a contributing author of the Bloomberg Law: Bankruptcy Treatise and has guest lectured at Penn Law School and Duke Law School. She received her B.A. cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania and her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of International Economic Law.