Ms. Benedetto's primary areas of practice are banking and finance and corporate and business law.
Representative Experience
· Recently served as in-house regional counsel for multi-state financial institution, responsible for providing legal advice and guidance on day-to-day bank operations matters, commercial lending matters, litigation matters, and governmental and legislative matters
· Represent lenders and borrowers in commercial loan transactions, including drafting and negotiating commercial loan documentation
· Work reviewing and documenting swaps and hedging transactions using ISDA documentation and tailoring same to substantive deal terms
· Work reviewing and documenting amendments to swaps/hedging transactions
· Serve as bond counsel and underwriter's counsel in tax-exempt financings, including drafting trust indentures, bond indentures and supplements thereto, and related documents in tax-exempt financings
· Represent entities in general business transactions
· Represent entities in troubled loan workouts, primarily by reviewing loan documents for deficiencies that may be exploited by bankruptcy trustees, and by preparation of loan modification and/or forbearance agreements
Other
· Articles Editor, West Virginia Law Review
· Order of the Coif
· Law Clerk to the Honorable John T. Copenhaver, Jr., Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, 1998 - 2001
· 1996 recipient of the Patrick Duffy Koontz Award, West Virginia University College of Law