Rocco Debitetto

Practice Areas

Business Law

Restructuring, Bankruptcy and Insolvency

Nonprofit & Art Law

Career

• Partner, Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP, 2010-present; Chair, Business Practice Area, 2019 – present; Commercial Services & Restructuring Practice Group, Member, 2001-present; Director of Legal Personnel, 2013-16; Associate, 2001-09; Summer Associate, 2000.

• Extern, Hamilton County Public Defender’s Office, Juvenile Division, 2001.

• Law Clerk, Robert E. Sanders & Associates, P.S.C., 1999-2001.

• United States Army Judge Advocate General Corps, Civilian Law Clerk, XVIII Airborne Corps, 1999.

• Summer Probate Clerk, Weltman, Weinberg & Reis, Co., L.P.A., 1996-98.

Professional Memberships

• American Bar Association, Business Law Section, Member.

• American Bankruptcy Institute, Member.

• Catholic Lawyers Guild, Member, 2001-present.

• The Justinian Forum, Member, 2011-present.

• Federal Bar Association, Cleveland Chapter, Board of Directors, 2006-present; Bankruptcy Section, Inaugural Chair, 2009-present; Newsletter Committee, Vice-Chair, 2007-09.

• Attorney Constituency Group, United States Bankruptcy Court, N.D. of Ohio, 2006-present.

• Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, Member, 2004-present; Young Lawyers’ Section, Chair, 2007-08; Bankruptcy and Commercial Law Section, Member; Fall 2008 Seminar, Co-Chair.

Publications

Sit Down, Shut Up and Mind Your Own Business: Controlling Subordinate Lenders in Bankruptcy- ABF Journal, 2017.

Chapter 11, Five Cards at a Time: Secured Lenders Hold ‘Em or Bust- ABF Journal, 2015.