Elizabeth Yazgi is Assistant General Counsel at LSTA. As a member of the senior leadership team, Elizabeth assists with the drafting and negotiation of LSTA’s suite of standardized primary and secondary loan market documentation, including best practices documents in support of its private corporate credit initiatives. Notably, she spearheaded the production of the LSTA “Private Corporate Credit – Representative Liability Management Transaction Protections for Credit Agreements”, a documentation tool articulating drafting approaches to assist lenders in crafting robust protective language in their credit agreements. As Assistant General Counsel, she engages with corporate and investment banks, PE sponsors, private credit funds, asset managers, financial institutions, other loan market participants and industry regulators on developments in the international loan space.

Elizabeth also leads the Association’s Sustainability and sustainable lending projects and collaborates with global stakeholders on key guidance for sustainable debt instruments, such as the green and sustainability-linked loan frameworks and the “Model Credit Agreement Provisions for Green Loans.” Recent publications include thought leadership pieces covering legal, documentation and market trends, including “Expert View (Mid-Year Trends)” on the role of sustainability in the private credit space (Practical Law) and “Loan Market Covenant Trends” quarterly summary (LSTA News).

Prior to joining the LSTA, Elizabeth practiced as a debt finance attorney at Morrison & Foerster LLP, White & Case LLP and Linklaters LLP in New York. She received a masters in French from the New York University Institute of French Studies and a J.D. from New York University School of Law. She is admitted as an attorney in New York.