Rachel C. Strickland

Rachel C. Strickland is a partner and global chair of the Restructuring Department at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP in New York. She advises distressed companies in complex chapter 11 cases and out-of-court restructurings, as well as financial and strategic investors looking to maximize recoveries or acquire a distressed target. She also has experience in mass tort restructuring matters. Ms. Strickland regularly represents hedge funds and private-equity firms, such as J.P. Morgan Asset Management, Senator Investment Group, Caspian Capital, Fidelity Investments and Lord Abbett & Co., in their capacities as investors, lenders and creditors of distressed entities. She also represents creditors and other stakeholders, investors, acquirers and lenders in chapter 11 cases and nonjudicial restructuring matters, as well as defamed Fulton County Election Workers in Rudy Giuliani’s chapter 11 case. Ms. Strickland is consistently recognized in Chambers USA and Chambers Global as a leading bankruptcy and restructuring lawyer. She also is recognized by The Legal 500 US as a Leading Lawyer in the area of Restructuring (Including Bankruptcy): Corporate, and she was named to the 2021 “Notable Women in Law” list by Crain’s New York Business. In 2021, she was named an “Outstanding Restructuring Lawyer” by Turnarounds & Workouts. Ms. Strickland is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and has served as a member of the Committee on Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. In addition, she currently serves on the board of directors for Her Justice (formerly known as inMotion), which provides pro bono legal services to women living in poverty in NYC, and has also supported Tina’s Wish, a cancer research nonprofit named in memory of former chief judge of the SDNY Bankruptcy Court Tina Brozman. She is also a volunteer with CARE (Credit Abuse Resistance Education), a nonprofit focused on financial literacy and personal financial management skills, and regularly gives educational presentations to NYC public high school students about the importance of financial literacy and responsible decision-making. Ms. Strickland lectures on bankruptcy-related matters for seminars and panels sponsored by the Turnaround Management Association, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and other professional organizations. She received her B.A. in 1994 from Michigan State University and her J.D. in 1998 from New York University School of Law.