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Jaclyn C. Marasco
Partner
Overview
Jaclyn Marasco is a Delaware-based litigator and problem-solver with a focus on disputes involving financial distress. Highly adaptable, she leverages her broad range of experience to craft and execute effective strategies for a variety of clients and co-counsel in high-stakes bankruptcy cases, complex commercial litigation, and other business disputes.
Bankruptcy & Related Litigation
Jackie is intimately familiar with complex Chapter 11 proceedings and their impact on various stakeholders, having served as a trial attorney for the US Department of Justice Office of the US Trustee in Delaware, and a law clerk to two US bankruptcy judges in New York and Delaware. She has served as counsel to debtors and debtors-in-possession, secured lenders and DIP lenders, official committees, and other unsecured creditors. Jackie also regularly represents clients in adversary proceedings and has significant experience with avoidance actions.
Corporate & Commercial Litigation
Jackie has litigated in every court in the State of Delaware, including the Delaware Supreme Court, Delaware Court of Chancery, Delaware Superior Court (including its Complex Commercial Litigation Division), US District Court, and US Bankruptcy Court (as well as appeals to the Third Circuit). She has effectively represented clients in commercial disputes involving claims for noncompliance with UCC Article 9, breach of contract, fraud, and other economic torts, and in special proceedings for corporate dissolution, interpleader, and judgment enforcement.
Pro Bono Experience
Jackie is an active member of Faegre Drinker’s Justice for Veterans Initiative, regularly serving as pro bono legal counsel to veterans and their spouses.
Personal Interests
Outside of the office, Jackie is an Audible afficionado, drawn to murder mysteries and thrillers. She also bakes a mean chocolate chip cookie.
Credentials
Bar Admissions
Delaware
New Jersey
New York
Court Admissions
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
Clerkships
U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, Hon. Mary F. Walrath, 2016-2017
U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of New York, Hon. Diane Davis, 2014-2016
Education
Pace University School of Law
J.D. cum laude (2014)
State University of New York College at Geneseo
B.S. in Business Administration, cum laude (2011)
Insights & Events
Insights
Other Perspectives
- Guest Commentary: Bankruptcy implications of Lac du Flambeau ruling
Republished in Minnesota Lawyer, July 11, 2023 - Ask the Judges
Moderator, ABI Delaware Views From the Bench, November 2022 - Supreme Court Update
Speaker, ABI Mid-Atlantic Conference, August 2022 - Am I Covered? Understanding the Scope and Availability of Directors' and Officers' Indemnification and Advancement Rights
Republished in Wolters Kluwer’s Corporation Report Bulletin, Vol. XCIII No. 14, July 20, 2022 - Overcoming the Absolute Priority Rule With Contingent Distribution Rights
American Bankruptcy Institute Journal, April 2017 - Is it Law or Something Else? A Divided Judiciary in the Application of Fraudulent Transfer Law Under Section 546(e) of the Bankruptcy Code
34 Pace Law Review 1268, 2014
Leadership & Community
Pro Bono
- Faegre Drinker — Justice for Veterans Initiative
Professional Associations
- Federal Bar Association
- American Bankruptcy Institute
- Delaware State Bar Association
Honors
- Chambers USA — Delaware, Bankruptcy/Restructuring, 2025
This award is conferred by Chambers & Partners. A description of the methodology is available here. No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey. - National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges — Next Generation (NextGen) Program, 2022
This program is conferred by the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges. A description of the selection methodology is available here. No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey.
- Faegre Drinker — Pro Bono Honor Roll, 2021-22
This award is conferred by Faegre Drinker. A description of the selection methodology is available here. No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey.
- White Plains Bar Association — Clinical Lawyering Award, 2014
- Pace University School of Law — Merit Scholarship Recipient, 2011-14
No aspect of these recognitions has been approved by the highest court of any state.