Lisa M. Vaccaro

Lisa Vaccaro is a banking and finance lawyer representing financial institutions and business in all aspects of commercial finance transactions. Lisa advises clients in structuring, documenting, and negotiating a wide variety of commercial transactions from unsecured lines of credit to secured syndicated multi-borrower transactions, including ESOP facilities, acquisition financing, and tax-exempt financing.

Lisa has extensive knowledge of intercreditor issues and other areas impacting financings, including cross-border issues, specialized collateral (such as healthcare and intellectual property), and foreign situated collateral and entities. Her confident demeanor and excellent reputation as a thought leader support Lisa’s role as a trusted adviser in corporate transactional matters including negotiating and preparing documents in connection with equipment financing, interest rate swap transactions, and other general business contracts.

Lisa’s impact goes far beyond her legal work, with immeasurable contributions to the firm. Lisa is a mentor to many, a champion and face of the firm’s internal connectivity committee (“Farrell FISH”), and an advocate for advancing women at the firm. She is often found at the forefront of women’s organizations, taking many female attorneys under her wing and making introductions and paving the way for them. Prior to the pandemic, Lisa (along with 3 other female attorneys at the firm) co-founded a real estate and finance professional women’s group to promote networking and collaboration, bringing together people with all different backgrounds connected to the industry.

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Experience

• Representation of a large national bank across a multi-tiered financing facility, consisting of revolving loans, term loans and tax-exempt financing to a group of non-profit borrowers.
• Representation of a large national bank providing a $50MM loan facility with foreign-situated collateral and guarantor.
• Representation of a large international bank providing a $35MM working capital line.
• Representation of a private real estate development and management firm in the restructuring of a $500MM syndicated multi-borrower loan facility.
• Representation of a national accounting firm in the negotiation and structuring of a $150MM syndicated revolving credit facility and a $25MM note purchase.

Community Work

• American Heart Association 2024 Long Island Go Red for Women Executive Leadership Team, Member
• Canine Companions of America, Regional Advisory Board, Former Member
• Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Light the Night, Executive Committee, Former Member
• Dress for Success, volunteer

Recognition

• Long Island Business News, Top 50 Women in Business