Solomon B. Shinerock

Solomon Shinerock focuses on achieving favorable outcomes for clients who face challenges involving white-collar crime and regulatory investigations, and also handles enforcement of foreign judgments, asset tracing and recovery matters, and complex commercial fraud cases.  He has extensive experience investigating complex, multi-jurisdictional commercial transactions and tax matters, and has litigated criminal and civil cases at the trial and appellate level in federal and state courts across the country.  

Mr. Shinerock has advised companies seeking financing regarding regulatory and governance matters, and has successfully litigated and resolved the fall-out from financing gone awry. His experience litigating matters involving swaps, derivatives, venture capital, debt financing, and SPAC transactions provides a broad base from which to identify issues in due diligence, structure transactions to address potential challenges prophylactically, and draft contractual language to create a transaction that will succeed over the long-term.

Mr. Shinerock spent over seven years in public service, as both a federal prosecutor in the Northern District of New York and an Assistant District Attorney at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Major Economic Crimes Bureau.  In those roles, he coordinated with multiple law enforcement agencies, regulatory bodies, and prosecuting offices to investigate complex fraud, tax evasion, and money laundering cases arising from domestic and cross-border transactions.  He played a lead role in several high-profile matters, including as lead line prosecutor in the investigation and indictment of the Trump Organization, and the successful enforcement of a grand jury subpoena for President Trump’s tax records through multiple rounds of federal appellate litigation.  In recognition of his work prosecuting an international bank fraud and $35 million money laundering case involving the parent company of Newsweek, he was awarded the 2021 FinCEN Director’s Law Enforcement Award in the Significant Fraud Investigation category. 

Mr. Shinerock also served as a law clerk to 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 in New York.  He has argued and briefed appeals in the U.S. Courts of Appeal in civil and criminal matters and served as lead- and co-counsel at trials and evidentiary hearings in federal and state courts.  He has also negotiated criminal dispositions involving significant fines, forfeiture, and restitution amounts, and civil resolutions involving tens of millions of dollars.   

Professional Affiliations

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

• Assistant District Attorney, Major Economic Crimes Bureau, Manhattan D.A.
• Assistant United States Attorney, Northern District of New York
• Associate, Cadwalader, Wickersham, & Taft
• Law Clerk, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
• Research Assistant, U.N. Committee Against Torture

Criminal matters:

• Brought tax fraud and related charges against an international real estate development firm and its Chief Financial Officer.
• Represented the New York County District Attorney’s Office in federal litigation through the U.S. Supreme Court concerning constitutional questions of a U.S. President’s immunity from criminal process.
• Brought money laundering and bank fraud charges against 8 individual and corporate defendants in connection with misrepresentations to equipment lenders and the laundering of $35 million of proceeds through international and domestic financial institutions.
• Brought federal international money laundering charges against 10 members of a criminal organization engaged in the distribution and sale of illegal pharmaceutical products and the laundering of proceeds in the United States and China.
• Investigated international money laundering conspiracy based on cross-border wire fraud and tax evasion scheme perpetrated by tobacco farmers.
• Investigated international financial institutions in connection with hundreds of millions of dollars in potential violations of U.S. sanctions in partnership with the U.S. Office of Foreign Asset Control, U.S. Federal Reserve Board of Governors, U.S. Department of Justice, and the New York City Department of Finance.
• Represented CEO of major insurer in federal criminal proceedings.

Civil and pro bono matters:

• Represented group of institutional and individual investors in successful civil securities fraud claims against private equity firm.
• Represented creditors of Dynegy Holdings in connection with fraudulent transfer claims concerning Dynegy’s transfer to shareholders of coal-powered generation assets in advance of its planned Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition.
• Defended asset manager through trial against contract and fiduciary duty claims by oil and gas company in connection with shale development rights in Texas.
• Represented religious institution in contract dispute concerning historical real property and religious artifacts.
• Represented victims of terror attacks and their family members in federal court proceeding to enforce foreign discovery order arising from civil claims against financial institution implicated in financing of terror attacks.

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