Benedetto, Elizabeth A.

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elizebeth_gilbertwebElizabeth A. Benedetto
Counsel


Charleston, West Virginia
304.340.3861
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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

Education

  • West Virginia University, B.S. in Business Administration, magna cum laude, 1989
  • West Virginia University, M.B.A., magna cum laude, 1990
  • West Virginia University College of Law, J.D., 1996

Admissions

  • West Virginia State Bar
  • West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
  • United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

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