Allison J. Levy practices in the areas of commercial and municipal finance, general corporate law, community development and affordable housing. Ms. Levy has experience with secured lending, venture capital and real estate financing and bond transactions as well as with counseling banks, lending institutions and other financial services organizations and insurance companies on regulatory compliance matters.
Ms. Levy negotiates and drafts loan documentation for secured, asset-based lending on behalf of both lenders and middle market borrowers across the U.S. and in Europe and Asia. Ms. Levy also negotiates and drafts bond documentation for public financing transactions on behalf of issuers, borrowers and underwriters. Ms. Levy counsels clients on day-to-day general corporate and corporate governance matters and serves as the board parliamentarian for a local charter school.
Ms. Levy also is a member of the firm's New Markets Tax Credit Practice Group, which represents investors, community development entities, leveraged lenders and for-profit and non-profit sponsors in the development of projects through the Federal New Markets Tax Credit program. Representative transactions of the firm's New Markets Tax Credit Practice Group have included community centers, university-related mixed-use projects, hotels, shopping centers, and medical centers that have been structured with conventional leverage loans, sponsor leveraging and the leveraging of a variety of grant sources, including tax-increment financing.
Ms. Levy is a 2006 graduate of Rutgers University School of Law, where she was executive editor of Rutgers Law Journal, and a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. She is conversant in French.
Areas of Practice
· Commercial Finance
· Municipal Finance
· Affordable Housing and Community Development
· Corporate Law
Professional Activities
· American Bar Association
- Business Law Section
· Pennsylvania Bar Association
- Appointed to Committee on Women in the Profession
· Philadelphia Bar Association
- Young Lawyer's Division
· Professional Women's Roundtable
· National Association of Bond Lawyers
Experience
· Duane Morris LLP
- Associate, 2008-present
· Reed Smith LLP
- Associate, 2006-2008
· U.S. Department of Justice
- Honors Paralegal Program, 2002-2003
Civic and Charitable Activities
· Board of Directors, Adam Taliaferro Foundation
· Young Friends of University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology
- Member of Executive Board
Selected Publications
· Co-author, "To Seek Exclusion of Shareholder Proposals, Companies May Bypass "No-action Letter Request" and Go Directly to Federal Court," Duane Morris Alert, April 15, 2011