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Stephanie

Stephanie Stephens
ShareholderFinance & Banking Team Chair
Seattle
D 206.223.7384
C 206.619.8057
stephenss@lanepowell.com

Stephanie Stephens represents banks, finance companies and other lenders, as well as borrowers, in negotiating, documenting, and closing secured and unsecured debt financing transactions.  

With 20 years of experience counseling clients in the financial services industry, she’s able to anticipate issues with a deal before they arise and provide clients strategic advice as they enter the deal process. Stephanie also advises on commercial and investment grade syndicated credit facilities, acquisition financing, note purchase transactions, loan participations, credit and facility reviews, asset and stock acquisition financing, real estate lending and other working capital credit facilities.

Chambers® USA’s Guide to America’s Leading Lawyers for Business sources describe Stephanie as being a “go-to banking and finance lawyer," who "provides quick, practical and well thought-out answers."

Professional Experience

Winston & Strawn (2008-2009)

Kennedy Covington Lobdell & Hickman, LLP (2006-2008)

Jenkens & Gilchrist, LLP (1998-2006)
 

Community Involvement

U.S. Law Firm Group, Women’s Committee

  • Chair (2018-Present)
  • Vice Chair (2016-2018)

American College of Finance Lawyers

  • Board of Regents (2020-Present)

Association of Commercial Finance Attorneys (2011-Present)

  • Board Member (2018-Present)

Community Council of Farestart (2018-2019)

American Bar Association — Commercial Finance Director/Liaison to Business Law Section Pro Bono Committee

Bainbridge Island Visually Impaired Persons Book Group, Volunteer

Bainbridge Island School District Highly Capable Education Advisory Committee (2014-2016)

 

Thought Leadership

  • June 1, 2022News
    Lane Powell Again Ranked Among Top Firms in 2022 Chambers® USA
    Awards & Honors
  • May 20, 2021Event / CLE
    Gotchas That Getcha in Commercial Credit Documentation (Part II)
    Association of Commercial Finance Attorneys | Virtual
  • May 20, 2021News
    Lane Powell Again Ranked Among Top Firms in 2021 Chambers® USA
    Awards & Honors
  • May 11, 2021Event / CLE
    Gotchas That Getcha in Commercial Credit Documentation (Part I)
    Association of Commercial Finance Attorneys | Virtual
  • May 19, 2019Event / CLE
    The Gotchas That Getcha: Selected Loan Documentation Issues
    Association of Commercial Finance Attorneys | Cape Neddick, Maine
  • February 7, 2019Event / CLE
    Commercial Law Developments Seminar
    Lane Powell Seminar | Seattle
  • September 12, 2018Event / CLE
    2018 Advanced Underwriting Workshop
    Commercial Finance Association | Chicago
  • August 6, 2018Event / CLE
    Liens and Security Interests Under the UCC (Lender Best Practices in Loan Transactions)
    In-house Presentation to National Banking Client
  • June 28, 2018Event / CLE
    Basics of UCC Article 9: Your Guide to Security Interests
    American Bar Association | Webinar
  • May 21, 2018Event / CLE
    Legal Considerations and Diligence in Asset-Based Lending & Owner-Occupied Real Estate
    In-house Presentation to National Banking Client
  • April 20, 2018News
    Stephens Elected as Fellow of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers
    Awards & Honors
  • June 4, 2017Event / CLE
    The Gotchas That Getcha: Selected Loan Documentation Issues Involving Third Parties
    Association of Commercial Finance Attorneys | Richmond, Virginia
  • May 9, 2017Event / CLE
    Women Supporting Women — How Law Firm and In-House Lawyers Can Help Lift Each Other
    National Association of Women Lawyers™ | Seattle
  • May 2, 2017Event / CLE
    Overview of Selected U.S. Lending Topics
    In House Presentation to National Bank Client
  • March 22, 2017Event / CLE
    Overview of U.S. Lending and Real Property Collateral
    Cross Border In House Presentation to National Bank Client
  • January 27, 2017News
    Leadership Council for Legal Diversity Appoints 2017 Fellows and Pathfinders
    Awards & Honors
  • May 20, 2016Event / CLE
    Perfection Ain’t What It Used to Be: Financing In-transit Inventory
    Association of Commercial Finance Lawyers Attorneys Continuing Legal Education Weekend
  • April 2, 2014Event / CLE
    Intellectual Property and Commercial Finance
    In-House Presentation to National Bank Client
  • November 13, 2013Event / CLE
    Intellectual Property and Commercial Finance
    In-House Presentation to National Bank Client
  • January 24, 2013Event / CLE
    Fraudulent Transfers and Structuring Loan Transactions
    In-House Presentation to National Bank Client
  • Get to Know the People of Lane Powell | Stephanie Stephens, Finance & Banking Team Chair
  • A Word About Finance Transactions
  • Chambers USA Leading Lawyer 2022

Practices & Industries

  • Corporate, Securities, and M&A
  • Creditors' Rights & Bankruptcy
  • Finance & Banking

Education

  • University of Arkansas School of Law , J.D., magna cum laude, 1998
    • Charles Thomas Pearson Scholar (1996-1998)
    • Arkansas Law Review, Note and Comment Editor
  • Humboldt State University , B.A., magna cum laude, 1994

Admissions

  • Washington
  • California
  • North Carolina (Inactive)

Honors

Chambers® USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Banking & Finance (2021-2022)

Fellow, American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers (2018)

Fellow, Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (2013)

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