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Elizabeth B. Garner

elizabeth b. garner

Partner

Atlanta

lgarner@phrd.com

t: (404) 420-4696

f: (404) 522-8409

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  • Overview
  • Prior Experience
  • Thought Leadership

Overview

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Garner represents financial institutions, investors and borrowers in a wide range of financing transactions, including syndicated, club and bilateral credit facilities. Lizzie has sharpened her skills as a finance attorney in law firms and while serving as internal legal counsel for a large regional bank. In-house practice has allowed Lizzie to develop a unique insider’s perspective. Having been a law firm client herself, she better understands the needs and priorities of her own clients, who appreciate her ability to frame legal issues using plain English and her penchant for being organized, prompt and thorough.

Lizzie has extensive experience in a wide variety of commercial, asset-based, senior secured and leveraged finance transactions, with specific industry experience in energy, retail, healthcare, food and beverages, life sciences, and sports and entertainment.

Lizzie is a native of the Atlanta area who balances her finance practice with a passionate commitment to volunteerism.

Prior Experience

  • Represented the U.S. subsidiary of a foreign bank in connection with a $20 million asset-based revolving credit facility to a cosmetic product retail company to fund a corporate restructuring.
  • Represented an asset-based lender in connection with a $25 million lender finance revolving credit facility using a special-purpose entity structure.
  • Represented a major private equity sponsor in connection with $90 million syndicated credit facilities for a provider of emergency preparedness response solutions.
  • Represented a leading renewable energy infrastructure investor in its role as sole lender in connection with a $220 million secured term loan facility for a fuel cell system manufacturer.
  • Represents large regional bank in connection with all treasury management products and services

    Thought Leadership

    • Contributor, "Interview with Tree Buckingham of Mountain Ridge Capital," The Secured Lender (March 2024)
    • Author, "Ga. Banking Brief: All The Notable Compliance Updates In Q2," Law360 Expert Analysis (July 2023)
    • Co-Presenter, "Liability Management: Uptiering Transactions," State Bar of Georgia Secured Lending Seminar (March 2023)
    • Contributor, "Women in Secured Finance Profiles," The Secured Lender (March 2023)
    • Contributor, "In the Spotlight: Women-Dominated Teams in Secured Finance," The Secured Lender (March 2023)
    • Contributor, "SFNet's 40 Under 40 Profiles," The Secured Lender (June 2022)
    • Moderator, "Legal Forum," Secured Finance Network (June 2022)

    Areas of focus

    • Commercial Finance
    • Lender Finance
    • Bankruptcy, Restructuring & Creditor Rights
    • Financial Services

    Education

    • Mercer University School of Law (J.D., cum laude, 2009)
    • University of Georgia (B.A., cum laude, 2005)

    Accolades

    • Chambers USA for Banking and Finance - Georgia (2024)
    • Best Lawyers in America - Banking and Finance Law (2024-2025) and Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law (2024-2025), Commercial Finance Law (2025)
    • Best Lawyers in America Ones to Watch - Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law (2021)
    • Secured Finance Network (SFNet)- "40 Under 40 Award" (2021)

    Professional affiliations

    • Page Turners Make Great Learners: Board Member
    • Cathedral of St. Philip Prison Re-Entry Ministry: Steering Committee Member

    Admitted to practice

    • Georgia
    • New York

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    Jul 21, 2023

    Kathleen Currey, Dan Ennis, and Lizzie Garner Presented at the 2023 Secured Lending Seminar Hosted by the State Bar of Georgia ICLE


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