Lisa brings broad legal and business perspective and problem-solving skills to all aspects of real estate, real estate finance, and capital markets transactions.
Lisa works with portfolio lenders, commercial banks, CMBS master and special servicers, pension fund advisers, private equity funds, government-sponsored entities, and owners nationwide to find strategic and cost-efficient solutions to finance, administer, and manage their commercial real estate investments and portfolios.
She represents structured finance participants in the acquisition of servicing rights in public and private securitizations, and routinely handles large loan originations, assumptions, and restructurings exceeding $100 million, as well as investment sales, acquisitions, and joint ventures. Lisa also handled resolution of several of the largest and most complicated CMBS loan assets for special servicers during the recent financial crisis. She has represented lenders and servicers in connection with a diverse range of sophisticated servicing consents, including large sponsor assumptions, material alterations, proposed filing of a land use condominium for a regional mall, acquisition of a ground lease, and solar arrays and cell tower leases.
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- Advises lenders and special servicers on defaulted loan assets throughout the country, including pari passu loan structures in multiple securitizations, comprising restructures, receiverships, foreclosures and guaranty actions.
- Represented leading Washington DC-based developers in connection with several bridge/repositioning loans for re-tenanting of office complexes in suburban Washington DC.
- Completed interim master and special servicing agreements for balance sheet and securitized loan products with some of the country’s largest originators and securitization issuers.
- Represented an Asian-based investor in connection with its $130 million acquisition of a 500-acre leading conference facility resort and spa in the Washington DC metropolitan area and related wellness initiatives.
- CRE CLO Building Blocks – Traditional Assets, October 28, 2021, CREFC Fall Conference
- Recognized by Chambers Global: World’s Leading Lawyers in the area of securitization (2026)
- Recognized by Chambers USA: Guide to Leading Business Lawyers in the area of real estate (2015-2025) and capital markets: securitization (2025)
- Recognized by The Legal 500 United States in the areas of structured finance: securitization (2021-2025); real estate finance (2021-2025) and real estate (2016-2017, 2021)
- Named to Best Lawyers in the area of real estate law (2018-2026)
- Selected by GlobeSt. to the Women of Influence Class (2021)
- Selected for inclusion in Washington DC, Super Lawyers® (2014-2020)
- Member, Real Property Probate and Trust Law Section, American Bar Association
- Member, Commercial Real Estate Finance Council
- Member, Commercial Real Estate Women
- Volunteer, Everybody Wins! literacy and mentoring program
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- Maryland
Honorable Frank A. Kaufman, Chief Judge, District Court of Maryland
- B.A., Hofstra University
- J.D., Yale Law School