Jacobson, Lawrence H

Lisa Jack is a counsel in the firm’s Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring Practice Group. She joined the firm in 2005. Ms. Jack's practice focuses on both debt financing and bankruptcy-related litigation.

Practice

Ms. Jack has represented clients in various secured debt transactions, including the documenting of secured credit facilities as part of leveraged acquisition financings. She also has assisted clients in resolving a variety of UCC and debt-related matters.

Ms. Jack has represented clients in filing of proofs of claim for an array of matters, including commercially complex proofs of claim for several billion dollars. She has also worked on the buyer-side of section 363 sales.

Ms. Jack has frequently represented clients in bankruptcy and insolvency-related litigation. She has assisted reorganized debtors in defending against creditor claims. She also has assisted creditors and third parties in defending against litigation claims ensuing from complex and sudden bankruptcies, such as Refco, Sentinel and Enron.

Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Jack clerked for the Honorable Joan A. Lenard of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. While in law school, she interned for the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, Civil Division and for the Miami Dade County Attorney’s Office.

Prior to her legal studies, Ms. Jack spent six years as a business strategy consultant for Monitor Group of Cambridge, Massachusetts. She assisted clients with a wide variety of business decisions, including: restructuring operations to reduce costs and designing policies for retaining key employees.

Recent Highlights

Ms. Jack played a critical role in providing representation to:

• A trust administrator filing joint proofs of claim totaling several billion dollars in the bankruptcy of a guarantor of securitized student loans
• A big five accounting and consulting firm in its purchase of substantial assets of BearingPoint in a section 363 sale
• The board of a bankrupt debtor in the investigation of potential claims it might have against lender/hedge fund equity investor
• Various financial services defendants sued by bankruptcy trustees under preference and fraudulent transfer theories after the exposure of insider fraud and the sudden implosion of Enron, Refco and Sentinel, respectively

Professional Activities

Ms. Jack is a member of the Boston Bar Association and the American Bankruptcy Institute.

Publications

• Lisa Lynch and George W. Shuster, Jr., "Bankruptcy Section 363 Sales: Buyers Beware of "Free and Clear" Sales of Non-Debtor Subsidiaries," Mondaq Banking and Financial Newswire (November 2006) (also appeared in similar form as a BCD Alert (October 2006)).