Solomon Shinerock

Partner

Solomon Shinerock is a seasoned advocate in white-collar criminal defense, regulatory investigations and complex cross-border financial disputes.

He focuses his practice on white-collar crime and regulatory investigations, as well as the enforcement of foreign judgments, asset tracing and recovery, and complex commercial fraud. He has extensive experience dissecting intricate, multi-jurisdictional commercial transactions and tax matters, and has litigated both criminal and civil cases at the trial and appellate levels in federal and state courts nationwide.

Solomon regularly advises companies seeking financing on regulatory and governance issues and has successfully litigated and resolved disputes stemming from financing that has gone awry. His work involving swaps, derivatives, venture capital, debt financing and SPAC transactions provides a broad platform for identifying issues during due diligence, structuring transactions to mitigate potential challenges, and drafting contractual provisions designed for long-term success.

Solomon spent more than seven years in public service, serving as a federal prosecutor in the Northern District of New York and as an Assistant District Attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Major Economic Crimes Bureau. He played a lead role in several high-profile matters, coordinating with a wide array of law enforcement agencies, regulatory bodies and prosecutorial offices to investigate complex fraud, tax evasion and money-laundering schemes involving domestic and cross-border transactions.

His work prosecuting an international bank fraud and $35 million money laundering case involving the parent company of Newsweek earned him the 2021 FinCEN Director’s Law Enforcement Award in the Significant Fraud Investigation category.

Solomon has briefed and argued appeals before multiple U.S. Courts ofAppeal, and has served as lead and co-counsel in trials and evidentiary hearings in both federal and state courts. He has negotiated criminal dispositions involving substantial fines, forfeiture and restitution, as well as civil resolutions totaling tens of millions of dollars.

Earlier in his career, Solomon clerked for the Honorable Harold Baer, Jr., of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and spent four years as an associate at an international law firm. Prior to joining Morrison Cohen, Solomon was a partner at Lewis Baach Kaufmann Middlemiss PLLC.

• New York City Bar Association, Professional Ethics Committee
• Federal Bar Council
• New York American Inn of Court

• American University, J.D., magna cum laude, Order of the Coif
• Oberlin College, B.A., high honors, Phi Beta Kappa