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Rachel Jaffe Mauceri is a corporate bankruptcy and restructuring lawyer with nearly 25 years’ experience counseling clients in complex bankruptcy and restructuring matters. A trusted advisor, she is known as a strong communicator and collaborator with a record of success in developing client relationships across disciplines.

Rachel advises official committees, debtors, and other parties in interest in in all aspects of domestic and international restructurings and has significant transactional and litigation experience in a range of industries, including retail, health care, pharmaceutical, agriculture, energy, automotive, oil and gas, mortgage servicing, real estate, and telecommunications. Rachel’s recent creditor committee representations include the chapter 11 cases of Salt House, Inc. (f/k/a Food52), Alachua Government Services, Aldrich Pump/Murray Boiler (affiliates of Trane), Mariner Health Central, Mallinckrodt plc, and Corp Group Banking S.A. She has represented companies in pre-negotiated and

traditional bankruptcy proceedings as well as out-of-court workouts; represented pension and health plans in connection with collective bargaining issues and proceedings under sections 1113 and 1114 of the Bankruptcy Code; advised indenture trustees and second lien lenders; represented financial institutions in the negotiation and documentation of secured lending facilities; advised stalking horse and other bidders in distressed and bankruptcy-related transactions; and advised vendors, contract parties and other significant creditors and parties in interest on a variety of bankruptcy-related issues.

Rachel is listed in Chambers, as a Notable Practitioner in the IFLR1000, and among the Philadelphia Elite by the Legal 500 US (Banking and Finance). She was recently named by the Global M&A Network as one of 2026’s Top 50 Restructuring Lawyers, and was named a 2024 Legal Advisor of the Year and was a recipient of the 2024 "Restructuring of the Year" award in the ($50MM to $100MM), both in connection with the restructuring of Mariner Health Central Inc. and affiliates, presented at the 23rd Annual M&A Advisor Awards.

She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Turnaround Management Association (Global) and former member of the Executive Board and a past Chair of the Global Network of Women (NOW) and the Chapter Presidents Counsel, as well as a member of the Board and former President and Chair of TMA’s Philadelphia/Wilmington Chapter. Rachel regularly speaks and writes on current developments in bankruptcy.

Prior to joining Robinson and Cole, Rachel worked for two global law firms, in New York and Philadelphia, respectively, focusing on bankruptcy and restructuring matters. While in law school, Rachel interned for Judge Prudence Beatty Abram of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

  • Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University (Juris Doctor, cum laude)
    • Order of the Coif
    • Law Review, Supervising Editor
  • Ithaca College (Bachelors)
    • B.A., Journalism

  • State of New Jersey
  • State of New York
  • Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
  • U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey
  • U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
  • U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Named to Global M&A Network’s 14th annual Top 100 Restructuring Professionals list as a Top 50 Restructuring Lawyer (2026)

Ranked in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business in the State of Pennsylvania & Surrounds in the area of Bankruptcy/Restructuring since 2020

Named to the IFLR1000 United States as a Rising Star in 2021, 2020 and 2019 and as a Notable Practitioner since 2022 in the area of Restructuring

Tier 2 ranking in Legal 500’s 2026 Elite City Focus – Philadelphia Banking and Finance Guide

Rising Star, Restructuring (including Bankruptcy): Corporate, The Legal 500 US (2019)

2025 "Ch. 11 Reorganization of the Year”" in the under ($100MM) for the restructuring of Mariner Health Central Inc. and affiliates, presented at M&A Advisor's 19th Annual Turnaround Awards

2024 Legal Advisor of the Year, 23rd Annual M&A Advisor Awards

2024 "Restructuring of the Year" in the ($50MM TO $100MM) for the restructuring of Mariner Health Central Inc. and affiliates presented at the 23rd Annual M&A Advisor Awards

The 17th Annual M&A Advisor Sector Deal of the Year, in the category of "Healthcare and Life Sciences (Under $100MM)," for the sale of North Philadelphia Health System, representing The Bank of New York Mellon as Indenture Trustee

Presented with the Food & Beverage Restructuring Deal of the Year honor as part of the Global M&A Network’s 14th Annual Turnaround Atlas Awards in recognition of serving as counsel to Tribe 9, LLC in the Carla’s Pasta, LLC Chapter 11 bankruptcy case

Presented with the Chapter 11 Restructuring of the Year in the “mega” category (value: above $5 billion) as part of the Global M&A Network’s 15th Annual Turnaround Atlas Awards in recognition of serving as co-counsel to the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors (UCC) in the Mallinckrodt plc, et al. chapter 11 cases.

Consumer Bankruptcy Assistance Project
Board of Directors, President-Elect

American Bankruptcy Institute
Spring NY Conference Advisory Board (2024-Present)
VALCON Conference Co-Chair (2021 - 2023)
VALCON Conference Advisory Board (2018 - 2019)
ABI Mid-Atlantic Conference Advisory Board (2017)

Turnaround Management Association (TMA)
TMA Global:
Board of Trustees
Board of Directors (2020 - Present), Education Committee (2025-Present)
Chapter Presidents Council, Chair (2024)
Executive Committee (2023 - 2024)
Co-Chair, Network of Women (NOW) (2019 - 2021), Committee member (2022), Advisory member (2023 - 2024)

Philadelphia/Wilmington Chapter:
Board Member of Trustees (2019 - Present)
Immediate Past Chair (2024), Chair (2023), President (2022; winning chapter, TMA Global DE&I Award)
Executive Committee (2021 - 2024)
Co-Chair, Network of Women (2018-20)

Eastern District of Pennsylvania Bankruptcy Forum
Member