Retired Partner
Jane Summers retired from the partnership in December 2023. Jane was a partner in the New York office of Latham & Watkins. She was a member of the firm's Finance Department and Banking Practice, where she focused primarily on representing major financial institutions in leveraged finance transactions, including acquisition financings, cross-border financings, asset-based facilities, and other senior secured lending transactions, as well as in connection with strategic purchases of distressed debt. Jane also advised loan market participants on strategic initiatives designed to address structural issues in the syndicated lending and loan trading markets, spoke frequently on market trends, and served as an expert witness and consultant involving questions critical to market practices. She was former Co-Chair of Latham's Women Enriching Business Committee in New York and a former member of the firm's Ethics and Finance Committees.
Prior to joining Latham, Jane served as executive vice president and general counsel of the Loan Syndications & Trading Association (LSTA), the industry organization for the corporate loan market. While at the LSTA, Jane was responsible for developing and managing the organization's legal, documentation, and regulatory strategies for key industry issues that establish standard market practices and procedures. She was appointed the LSTA's first general counsel in 2000. Jane spent the first decade of her career in the leveraged finance group at another major law firm, following which she served as deputy general counsel for Barclays in the Americas.
At the time of her retirement, Jane was a member of the American Bar Association Business Law Section's Syndications and Lender Relations Subcommittee, the New York State Bar Association, and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Jane is a fellow of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers and she is consistently recognized as a leading lawyer for banking & finance by Chambers USA.