Allison R. Liff is a partner in the Banking & Finance practice group in the New York office of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. Ms. Liff’s practice concentrates on representing private equity and corporate clients globally in debt financing transactions (including leveraged finance, investment grade lending and asset-based lending) and restructuring matters.
Ms. Liff recently rejoined Weil from Goldman Sachs, where she was a Managing Director and head of the Leveraged Finance Legal team, responsible for leveraged finance, middle market financing, restructuring, and the bank debt portfolio group. Before joining Goldman Sachs, Ms. Liff was an associate in Weil’s Banking & Finance practice group.
Ms. Liff’s recent transactional experience includes:
- Representation of Advent International Corporation in the financing for its acquisition of the Belgium-based coating resins business of Cytec Industries Inc.
- Representation of Doncasters Group Ltd. (a portfolio company of Dubai International Corporation) in the refinancing of its credit facilities.
- Representation of Oxea S.a r.l. (a portfolio company of Advent International Corporation) in a dividend recapitalization financing.
- Representation of Fidelity National Financial, Inc. in the financing for its acquisition of Lender Processing Services, Inc.
While at Goldman Sachs, Ms. Liff worked on a broad array of global financing matters with various private equity sponsors and corporate clients, including domestic and cross-border acquisition financings, dividend recapitalizations, leveraged spin transactions, working capital facilities, repricings, loan-for-loan and loan-for-bond exchanges, commercial mortgage financings, debtor-in-possession financings, bankruptcy exit facilities, structured finance transactions, community lending and emerging markets financing transactions. Ms. Liff also counseled on bank regulatory issues pertaining to bank loan transactions, including anti-tying rules, legal lending limits, Regulation U and Regulation W.
Ms. Liff received her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2000. She received a B.S. in Policy Analysis, with distinction, from Cornell University in 1997.