Overview

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

Education

  • American University (J.D., magna cum laude, 2009), Order of the Coif, Gillet-Mussey Fellow, Dean’s Fellow
  • Oberlin College (B.A., high honors, 2002), Phi Beta Kappa

Bar Admissions

  • New York
  • U.S. Supreme Court
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
  • U.S. District Courts for the Southern District of New York, Eastern District of New York, and Northern District of New York