Susan has led capital markets transactions totaling over $150 billion for companies in the consumer products, energy, information services and financial services industries. Creating business-oriented solutions without compromising client service is the guiding principle of Susan’s approach to leading transactions.

Susan’s practice spans corporate finance, including securities offerings and syndicated lending, domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and securities law compliance. She acts as primary outside counsel to the treasury departments of large public companies and has served as interim general counsel and chief compliance officer of a Fortune 250 international specialty retailer.

Susan’s pro bono clients include not-for-profit corporations and refugees seeking asylum in the United States. 

Bar Admissions

Education
JD, Pace University School of Law, cum laude, Casenote and Comment Editor, Pace Law Review, 1995

BS, New York University, 1991

• Represents Fortune 500 companies in foreign and domestic public debt offerings, including U.S. dollar, Euro and CHF denominated bonds (the largest corporate debt deal by a US company in Switzerland), 144A offerings, Euro medium term note (EMTN) programs, 3(a)(3) and 4(2) commercial paper programs and euro commercial paper (ECP) programs.
• Represents borrowers in syndicated loan transactions, including committed acquisition, revolving, secured term and letter of credit facilities.
• Represents public and private buyers and sellers in domestic and international merger and acquisition transactions, including joint ventures, spin-offs, strategic sales of assets, lease portfolio management and commercial aspects of strategic restructurings.
• Represents major financial institutions and investors in numerous cross-border and domestic structured financings and lease portfolio transactions involving assets such as power plants, rolling stock, ships, aircraft, real estate and telecommunication equipment.
• Represents corporations doing business in Latin America and the Caribbean, including transactions in Aruba, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Curacao, and the Dominican Republic.
• Advises clients in strategic planning and liability management, including spin-offs ($113 billion spin-off of international operations, largest in history and $61 billion spin-off of global subsidiary, second largest in history), tender offers, consent solicitations and exchange offers.

• Member, The Association of the Bar of the City of New York
• Member, New York State Bar Association
• Member, American Bar Association

• Client Choice Awards, General Corporate–NY, International Law Office and Lexology USA & Canada, 2013, 2014
• Listed in the Latin Lawyer 250, International category, by Latin Lawyer Magazine, 2010-2011

• Latin America 2014: Economic, Legal and Political Trends
• Mitigating Corruption Risk: How can business protect itself?, Latin Business Chronicle
• Exit Provisions, Faces of M&A 2012: Market Commentary from Leading Advisors, Financier Worldwide
• An Allied Front, Latin Lawyer
• Judgment Call: Cleaning up, The Deal Pipeline