Rachel Albanese is a Restructuring partner in the New York Office of DLA Piper. Rachel is experienced in representing secured and unsecured creditors, debtors, equity holders, purchasers of distressed assets, and other parties in interest in a wide range of restructuring matters, including cases under chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, out-of-court workouts and cross-border insolvency proceedings.
Rachel is a contributing author of the Bloomberg Law: Bankruptcy Treatise. She is also a Co-chair of the National Association of Women Lawyers' (NAWL) Practice Area Affinity Group, Women in Bankruptcy & Restructuring, and a member of the International Women's Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation and the American Bankruptcy Institute. After law school, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of Penn Law's Journal of International Economic Law, Rachel clerked for Hon. John W. Bissell, Chief Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.