Shaya Rochester’s practice focuses on corporate restructuring and insolvency law. Mr. Rochester has a broad range of experience in chapter 11 bankruptcies, adversary proceedings and out-of-court restructurings, representing both debtors and creditors, including unsecured creditors’ committees, bondholders, pre-petition agent banks, DIP lenders and exit financiers. He has worked on major chapter 11 cases, including those of Delta Air Lines, Six Flags, Aventine Renewable Energy, Propex, VeraSun Energy, Spansion, IdleAire Technologies, Adelphia Communications and Dow Corning, and has provided risk management and bankruptcy advice to other significant clients in a wide variety of industries, including tobacco, food, energy and telecommunications.
Mr. Rochester received his B.A. cum laude from Yale University in 1997 and his J.D. in 2002 from the Washington University School of Law, where he was a member of the Washington University Law Quarterly and the recipient of the Mary Collier Hitchcock Prize, awarded to the graduating student with the best student Note published in the law review.
Mr. Rochester is a member of the New York State Bar and is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.