Lisa D. Kabnick

Senior Advisor

Pepper Center Fellow

lisa.kabnick@troutman.com

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In domestic and cross-border complex syndicated secured credit transactions, clients rely on Lisa's in-depth experience and market knowledge to help them reach their goals quickly and efficiently.

Located in:

  • Philadelphia
  • New York

Areas of Focus:

  • Syndicated Loans
  • Mezzanine Lending
  • Corporate
  • Finance
  • Financial Restructuring + Insolvency
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  • Representative Matters
  • Related Practices and Industries
  • Professional and Community Involvement
  • Rankings and Recognition
  • Credentials
A highly distinguished finance lawyer.

— Chambers USA

Lisa represents financial institutions and borrowers in syndicated secured credit transactions, including those with cross-border elements. Her experience spans a variety of industries, including health care, medical device and pharmaceuticals, financial services, fine art, manufacturing and licensing, communications, and death care.

Lisa advises clients in connection with acquisitions, international transactions and workouts, and has experience in guiding CEOs and CFOs through restructuring and transformational transactions, providing hands-on corporate governance counsel. She has also been active in working with state and local agencies to encourage trade in and through the Philadelphia region and its ports.

Lisa is a fellow of The Pepper Center for Public Service. The Pepper Center draws on the talents of the firm's retired partners and senior attorneys to wrestle with tough problems facing our communities. Through the Center, these attorneys study, analyze, and work to resolve problems that affect the lives of people in our communities.

Representative Matters

  • Represented the agent bank in connection with a secured financing of a privately owned gasoline distribution company and its almost 200 station-owning affiliates, including a complex intercreditor agreement with an existing first lien real property lender.
  • Represented the agent bank and security trustee in a $180 million global revolving credit facility for a U.S.-based financial services group.
  • Represented a major financial institution as administrative agent in a $300 million syndicated unsecured multicurrency credit facility for a publicly traded global chemical company and many of its domestic and international subsidiaries.
  • Represented the winning consortium in a bid of $12.8 billion for the privatization of the Pennsylvania Turnpike toll road, which if consummated, would have been the largest privatization of a U.S. road by a government entity to date.
  • Represented one of the United States' largest health insurers in a $350 million debt facility to finance, in part, the acquisition of 100 percent of the stock (and related joint venture interests) in of the world’s largest manufacturers and distributors of eyewear and sun wear.
  • Represented a global chemical company and managed the simultaneous closing of two secured syndicated credit facilities, one in the United States and one in Europe; the European facility was led out of England and included real and personal property collateral in 12 European countries.
  • Served as primary outside counsel to one of the largest U.S. private marine terminal operators and stevedoring companies; oversaw the acquisition of a substantial interest in a European shipping company, as well as the acquisition and related financing of the largest U.S. East Coast-Puerto Rico shipping company.
  • Represented the agent bank in connection with a $180 million secured syndicated financing of a publicly traded master limited partnership, full-service cemetery and funeral home provider, which then operated 274 cemeteries and 69 funeral homes in 28 states and Puerto Rico, including providing working capital and acquisition facilities; also represented the agent bank as collateral agent for the bank group and institutional lenders, with real and personal property collateral in those jurisdictions without regulatory limitations and in connection with intercreditor arrangements.
  • Represented a major financial institution, in its role as administrative agent, in a $200 million syndicated secured credit facility with an accordion feature providing the potential to expand to $300 million and including revolving borrowings and letters of credit, with U.S. and Dutch borrowers and a U.S. guarantor.

Representative matters may include engagements before joining Troutman Pepper.

Related Practices and Industries

  • Corporate
  • Finance
  • Financial Restructuring + Insolvency
  • Asset-Based Lending
  • Public Finance + Nonprofit Lending
  • Financial Services
  • Community Banking
  • Private Equity
  • Syndicated Loans
  • Mezzanine Lending
  • Real Estate Capital Markets (REITs)

Professional and Community Involvement

  • Director (2015-present); Lead Independent Director; Chair of Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, member of Audit Committee and Compensation Committee, American Finance Trust (trading on Nasdaq as AFIN)
  • Director (2015-present); Vice Chair of board, chair of Audit/Finance Committee; member of Nominating and Governance Committee, Philadelphia Media Network (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
  • Director (2017-2020); member of the Executive Committee, Compliance/Corporate Governance Committee, Compensation Committee and Risk Governance Committee, CFG Community Bank
  • Director, The Kimmel Center (2006-2013)
  • Director, Ongava Game Reserve (2001-present)
  • Trustee and Co-Chair of Corporate Partners Board (2009-11); member of Corporate Partners (1998-2011), Philadelphia Museum of Art
  • Northeast National Trustee (2011-present); Vice Chair and head of Nominating Committee (2017-present); Vice Chair, Gala Committee, Boys and Girls Clubs of America
  • Member, Trustees Council of Penn Women, University of Pennsylvania (2009-present)
  • Chair, Visionary Circle, United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey Council (2013-16)
  • Director, Breastcancer.org (2006-13)
  • Trustee and lead member of Finance Committee, Marlboro College (1999-2003)
  • Trustee, Pennsylvania Ballet (2005-08)
  • Director, Living Beyond Breast Cancer (1998-2002)
  • Past president and founding board member, Chilean and American Chamber of Commerce of the Greater Philadelphia Area (1987-98)
  • Founding member, long-time member of the board of directors and member of Executive Committee, Delaware River Maritime Enterprise Council (2000-07)

Rankings and Recognition

  • Recognized in The Legal 500 United States for Finance: Commercial Lending: Advice to Borrowers (2021-2022)
  • Super Lawyers®: Pennsylvania (2005-2021)
  • Best Lawyers in America®: "Lawyer of the Year" in Banking & Finance Law (2021)
  • Ranked in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business in Band 1, Banking & Finance (2007-2022), Eminent Practitioner (2023)
  • Best Lawyers in America®: Banking and Finance Law (2006-2023)
  • Selected as Woman of Distinction, Real Philly Magazine (2005)
  • Trailblazer Honoree, Philadelphia Magazine (2005)

Credentials

Bar Admissions

  • New York
  • Pennsylvania

Education

  • University of Pittsburgh School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude, 1980; executive articles editor, Law Review and member of the Order of the Coif
  • University of Pennsylvania, B.A., magna cum laude, 1976; economics 

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