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Marisa advises insurance, financial, and private equity clients on all aspects of complex transactions in the insurance sector, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, joint ventures, reinsurance transactions, and other general corporate matters. Additionally, she provides guidance on a wide range of insurance regulatory compliance issues.

Marisa maintains an active pro bono practice, including representing asylum seekers and refugees fleeing persecution abroad through the National Immigrant Justice Center and domestic violence victims through Ascend Justice.

  • Best Lawyers in America® Ones to Watch: Mergers and Acquisitions Law (2021-2026), Insurance Law (2021-2026), and Securities / Capital Markets Law (2024-2026)

Marisa advises insurance, financial, and private equity clients on all aspects of complex transactions in the insurance sector, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, joint ventures, reinsurance transactions, and other general corporate matters. Additionally, she provides guidance on a wide range of insurance regulatory compliance issues.

Marisa maintains an active pro bono practice, including representing asylum seekers and refugees fleeing persecution abroad through the National Immigrant Justice Center and domestic violence victims through Ascend Justice.

  • Best Lawyers in America® Ones to Watch: Mergers and Acquisitions Law (2021-2026), Insurance Law (2021-2026), and Securities / Capital Markets Law (2024-2026)

Top areas of focus

  • Intern for the Honorable Chief Justice Sherry Radack, Texas First District Court of Appeals, Houston, TX, 2012

Education

  • University of Illinois College of Law, J.D., summa cum laude, 2014, Order of the Coif; notes editor, University of Illinois Law Review
  • Rice University, B.A., magna cum laude, 2009, political science and sociology

Bar Admissions

  • Illinois