Elizabeth R. Tabas Carson

Partner
Reed Smith

Liz is a partner in the firm's Financial Services Group. Experienced in a wide range of U.S. and English law banking and transactional finance matters, she concentrates her practice on banking and financing transactions including domestic and cross-border leveraged acquisition financings, fund financings, dividend recapitalizations, working capital financings, restructurings and other distressed transactions.

Liz regularly represents U.S. and international corporate borrowers, financial sponsors, portfolio companies, arrangers, agent banks, financial institutions and alternative capital sources on bilateral, club and broadly syndicated transactional finance matters across a variety of industries. She also has significant experience with structuring and negotiating secured and investment grade credit facilities, first lien, second lien, mezzanine, unitranche and multi-tranche financings, liquidity lines, letter of credit facilities, trade financings, derivative-backed structured financings, restructurings, DIP loans, private placements and high yield debt offerings. Finally, Liz also advises on conflict of law issues (including with respect to sanctions regimes) and the differences between the U.S. Loan Syndications and Trading Association and the European Loan Market Association norms, market practices and standards.

Her practice also includes advising clients on corporate and other transactional matters specific to cross-border transactions, including advising domestic and non-U.S. issuers, financial institutions and alternative capital sources on conflict of law issues (including with respect to sanctions regimes) and the differences between LSTA and LMA norms and market practices and standards.

Recently, Liz was named a “Notable Practitioner” by IFLR1000 for banking in the United States.