Press Release 12.07.22
Lynn Soukup focuses her practice on complex financing transactions, including secured lending, sports finance and default and insolvency-related matters.
Ms. Soukup is a nationally recognized authority on the Uniform Commercial Code’s impact on financing transactions and legal opinions. She has presented many programs for the American Bar Association, PLI and other organizations on secured transactions and related legal opinion issues. Ms. Soukup served as chair of the ABA Business Law Section’s 2,000-member Commercial Finance Committee from 2007 – 2010 and has served on a number of taskforces and working groups related to finance transactions.
Representative Experience
Representation of major sports franchise in financing transactions, league-related matters, business succession planning transactions and operational matters.
Professional Highlights
- Board of Regents, President (2014 – 2015) and past executive committee member, American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers Inc.
- American Law Institute (elected member)
- TriBar Opinion Committee Member (emeritus)
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- Recognized by Best Lawyers (published by BL Rankings LLC), Securitization and Structured Finance Law (2006 – 2023); and named Lawyer of the Year for Securitization and Structured Finance Law, Washington, DC (2012)
- Selected Presentations
- “Applying UCC Articles 1, 8 and 9 to Non-Financing Transactions” (panelist, PLI Program on What Lawyers Need to Know About UCC Article 9: Secured Transactions, 2014 – 2020)
- “Equity Interests as Collateral” (panelist, PLI Program on What Lawyers Need to Know About UCC Article 9: Secured Transactions, 2008 – 2012)
- “Perfecting Security Interests in Deposit Accounts, Securities Accounts and Other Investment Property: Establishing Control under the UCC” (presenter, Strafford teleconference 2011)
- “Equity Interests as Collateral in Commercial Lending” (presenter, Strafford teleconference 2009 – 2011)
- “Where Guarantors Meet Article 9: How Not to Mess Up Your Article 9 Enforcement When You Have a Guarantor” (panelist, ABA teleconference 2009)
- “Anatomy of a Work Out” (moderator, ABA Annual Meeting 2009 program)
- “Getting Blood from a Stone—Commercially Reasonable Foreclosure on Collateral and the Availability of a Market” (panelist, ABA Annual Meeting 2008 program, 2009 teleconference)
- “Risks and Issues When Alternative Entity Interests Are Collateral” (panelist, ABA Business Law Section Spring 2007 Meeting program)
- “Indemnification Provisions of Corporate Agreements: Allocation of Risk in Contracts” (panelist, April 2006 ABA CLE Forum Broadcast Seminar)
- “When Godzilla Meets Bambi: Securities Law Issues for Finance Lawyers” (program chair and moderator, January 2006 ABA CLE Forum Broadcast Seminar; program chair and panelist, ABA Business Law Section Spring 2005 Meeting program)
- “Deposit Accounts and Securities Accounts as Collateral: Twin Sons of Different Mothers” (presenter at ABA Annual Meeting 2005 Investment Securities subcommittee meeting)
- UCC Institute (38th Annual Conference) (panelist, April 2005 program)
- “Wheel of Misfortune” (panelist, Commercial Finance Association 60th Annual Conference November 2004 and ABA Business Law Section Spring 2005 Meeting program)
Education
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J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 1981
magna cum laude, Law and Policy in International Business, Senior Lead Articles Editor, 1980-1981B.A., Economics, Bucknell University, 1978
magna cum laude
Admissions
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District of Columbia