Lisa R. Jacobs
Lisa R. Jacobs is a partner in the Philadelphia office of Pepper Hamilton LLP and concentrates her practice on domestic and international corporate, venture and banking finance, investment management, fund formation and organization, government relations and the professional sports industry.
Ms. Jacobs represents corporate, institutional and individual clients in a broad variety of matters, ranging from complex corporate finance to venture capital transactions, financing in connection with mergers and acquisitions, asset securitizations and private placements, as well as private equity fund formation and governance issues. She also provides strategic advice on complex financial issues nationally and internationally. She has significant experience in government relations and contracting. Throughout her career, Ms. Jacobs has advised clients in connection with restructuring of secured and unsecured indebtedness, various equity interests, corporate reorganizations, lender liability and pre bankruptcy asset recovery, including related litigation.
Ms. Jacobs’ representative engagements include:
- negotiation of the agreement between the Republican National Committee and the City of Philadelphia that brought the 2000 Republican Presidential Convention to Philadelphia. The Site City Agreement represented the first time in history that a host city’s financial obligations to a political party for staging the convention in that city were secured by a $20 million, irrevocable letter of credit. Ms. Jacobs was counsel to the RNC and its Committee on Arrangements for the Convention.
- representation of Mario Lemieux and a syndicate of investors in the purchase of the Pittsburgh Penguins National Hockey League franchise from bankruptcy, making Lemieux the first retired player to own his former team. As part of the original transaction, Ms. Jacobs was involved in negotiating agreements on behalf of the Pittsburgh Penguins with the team’s senior and unsecured creditors and with the NHL Players’ Association, as well as agreements involving the team’s television rights and arena management. Ms. Jacobs continues to represent the team in its ongoing financing and capital requirements.
- representation of the Florida Panthers National Hockey League franchise, several AHL and minor hockey league franchises, and a minor league baseball team in their capital and financing requirements
- advising numerous managers, advisers and fund sponsors in private equity fund organizational, formation, governance and restructuring matters
- representation of several major families of private equity funds and venture funds in connection with initial and follow on investments in and dispositions of portfolio companies
- representation of portfolio companies in their operating and financing requirements
- representation of several major national and regional banks in numerous loan, restructuring and workout transactions, including involving entities engaged in regulated businesses
- representation of a national senior care facility chain in its structuring, operating, financing and leasing activities.
Ms. Jacobs has written a number of articles and is a frequent lecturer on corporate finance, private equity and venture fund governance, venture capital, and other business and financial issues. She authored the chapter on Limited Liability Companies in Corporate Attorneys' Practice Guide (William H. Clark, Jr., ed., LexisNexis 2009).
Ms. Jacobs was appointed by the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to serve on the Advisory Committee for the Pennsylvania Department of State Corporations Bureau. She is a member of the Executive Council of the Business Law Section of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, and its Title 15 Drafting Committee and LLC Committee. She was a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association Task Force on the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act and helped draft the Pennsylvania act, which became effective in 1993. She was appointed in 2008 by the Pennsylvania Bar Association to serve as its Observer for the Business Organization Act Drafting Committee of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL) and in 2009 to serve on NCCUSL’s Drafting Committee on Harmonization of Business Entity Acts. She also serves on the Business Law Advisory Board for Drexel University’s College of Law.
Ms. Jacobs is active in national and local politics. She was appointed by Senator Rick Santorum to the Federal Judicial Nominating Commission for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in 2003 and reappointed in 2005 and served on the 2001 U.S. Attorneys/U.S. Marshals Nominating Commission. Ms. Jacobs served as an elected Republican Committeeperson in Newtown Township, Pennsylvania from 1994 through 2007, and on the Planning Commission for the Township from 2001 through 2007, and served as the solicitor for the Newtown Township Council of Republican Women. In 1998, she became the first woman named to the Newtown Township Municipal Authority and served as its chairwoman through 2001. She was named Delaware County Republican Woman of the Year in 1999.
Active in a number of civic and charitable organizations, Ms. Jacobs has served since 2001 on the board of directors of hireAbility, a Pennsylvania nonprofit corporation seeking to promote and facilitate the employment of individuals with disabilities, and is currently its vice chair. She also served on the board of directors of The Enchantment Theatre Company, a Philadelphia-based national touring company producing innovative quality theater for children and from 1998-2000, she served on the advisory board of The Teddy Pendergrass Alliance, a nonprofit corporation devoted to improving educational and employment opportunities for individuals with spinal cord injury.
Education
B.S. 1980, cum laude, University of Pennsylvania
J.D. 1986, cum laude, Villanova University School of Law; associate editor, Villanova Law Review
Bar Admissions
Admitted to practice in Pennsylvania
