Donald J. "Don" Rafferty

Donald J. "Don" Rafferty


Cohen, Todd, Kite & Stanford, LLC

Recognized since 2006

Cincinnati, Ohio

Practice Areas

Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law

Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)

Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law

Commercial Litigation

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Don Rafferty combines his experience in the areas of business restructuring, commercial finance, corporate law, and litigation to provide legal and strategic advice to the firm’s business clients on a wide range of issues. Don frequently counsels clients who either are experiencing financial stress or are dealing with distressed companies. He has advised on sales, acquisitions, and restructurings for numerous middle-market companies. Don has significant experience in transactions, dispute resolution, and restructuring matters involving troubled real estate developments, shopping centers, commercial office projects, apartment and condominium developments, operating businesses, and manufacturing concerns. He has represented all constituencies – debtors, lenders, creditors, creditors’ committees, and others – in Chapter 11 cases, out-of-court restructurings, UCC Article 9 sales, and other similar mechanisms. Drawing on his unique and varied experience, Don is able to develop efficient and appropriate strategies for healthy and troubled companies as they confront the myriad challenges of running their businesses in today’s challenging business environment.

Don also has acted as lead trial counsel in a broad spectrum of business disputes in federal and state trial and appellate courts. His litigation experience includes the prosecution and defense of numerous fraud or fraudulent transfer cases, bankruptcy preference actions, complex contract cases, class actions, complex commercial foreclosures, including disputes involving special servicers and non-recourse CMBS loans, and intellectual property matters, including prosecution of patent and copyright infringement lawsuits.

He has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America and Ohio Super Lawyers since

Contact & Links
Location
  • 250 East Fifth Street, Suite 2350
    Cincinnati, OH 45202-5136
Education
  • University of Cincinnati, graduated 1989
Bar Admissions
  • Ohio, 1989
Court Admissions
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit
  • U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio
  • U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan
  • U.S. District Court, District of Arizona

Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2025 for work in:
  • Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
  • Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
  • Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law
  • Commercial Litigation
Special Focus:
  • Chapter 12
  • Civil Litigation
  • Commercial
  • Creditors' Rights
  • Debtors' Rights
  • Litigation
  • Workouts and Restructurings
Additional Areas of Practice:
  • Commercial Transactions / UCC Law
  • Litigation - Bankruptcy
  • Mergers and Acquisitions Law

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