Lisa-Marie C. Monsanto

Lisa-Marie Monsanto focuses her practice on representing financial institutions, hedge funds, issuers and other parties in the structuring, negotiation and documentation of a broad range of financing transactions. Ms. Monsanto has extensive experience in secured and unsecured single bank, club and syndicated credit facilities, first lien/second lien financing, mezzanine financing, cross border transactions, project finance, securitization and equipment finance. She also has a background in a wide range of specialized capital markets products.

Ms. Monsanto is a member of the Board of Directors and the Corporate Counsel of The White House Project, member of the Board of Directors of the Rotary Club of Washington, DC and co-chair of its World Community Services Committee, member of the Leadership Circle of Women’s Foreign Policy Group, and a LEADer with Women’s World Banking. In addition, she serves as an originator for The Overseas Private Investment Corporation's (OPIC) Enterprise Development Network (EDN), a new alliance with the private sector designed to support small and medium-sized enterprises expanding into emerging markets overseas. 

Prior to joining Katten in 2002, Ms. Monsanto practiced for six years with the Financial Institutions Group at Shaw Pittman LLP. She received her JD from Columbia Law School, her MBA with a concentration in finance from Rutgers University and her BA in economics from McGill University. Ms. Monsanto is admitted to practice in New York and the District of Columbia. Ms. Monsanto was with the Portfolio Management Group at The Prudential Insurance Company of America for six years prior to law school.