People in the News—April 23, 2020—Hamburg Rubin
Hamburg, Rubin, Mullin, Maxwell & Lupin announced that attorney Lisa A. Shearman joined the firm as a partner.
April 23, 2020 at 11:00 AM
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Lisa Shearman, with Hamburg, Rubin, Mullin, Maxwell & Lupin.
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Hamburg, Rubin, Mullin, Maxwell & Lupin announced that attorney Lisa A. Shearman joined the firm as a partner.
Shearman is a principal in the firm and a trusts and estates and business lawyer.
She has over 20 years of experience advising and implementing sophisticated estate plans for clients that focus on business continuity and succession and aim to reduce taxes and preserve wealth in the way her clients desire.
Her practice includes estate administration and postmortem planning along with trust administration and the preparation of inheritance tax, federal estate and gift tax, and fiduciary income tax returns.
In addition, Shearman assists clients with the formation and operation of tax-exempt organizations including private foundations.
She also represents beneficiaries of estates and trusts in will contests, trust disputes and more in Orphans' Court and has an active practice representing clients in guardianship matters.
A treasurer of the Pennsylvania Bar Association real property, probate and trust section council and a Zone 9 delegate to the PBA, Shearman serves as secretary of the Montgomery Bar
Association and vice chair of its probate and tax section.
She is a fellow of the Montgomery Bar Foundation.
She serves on the board of the Montgomery County Estate Planning Council and the Wills for Heroes Foundation, for which she also serves as vice president.
Among other awards, Lisa is the 2015 recipient of the Pennsylvania Bar Association President's Special Achievement Award and the 2014 recipient of Milton O. Moss Community Service Award, presented by the Montgomery Bar Foundation.
Shearman received her law degree from Widener University School of Law in 1992 and her LL.M. in taxation from Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law in 1994.
Speakers
Blank Rome and Breslin, Young & Slaughter's health care teams co-presented "Health Care Lenders/Investors Playbook for Medicare Accelerated and Advance Payment Program (AAPP)," a one-hour webinar for the health care lending and investment community in connection with the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act.
Key Topics included COVID-19 industry observations, an Accelerated and Advance Payment Program overview. AAPP borrowing base impact and AAPP legal ramifications.
The program's moderators were Blank Rome partner Kenneth J. Ottaviano and Breslin Young CEO Brian Young.
The Blank Rome attorneys presenting at the program were partners Karin H. Berg, Jason Eig, Elaine Scivetti, Paige Barr Tinkham and Philadelphia-based Heather Sonnenberg.
From Breslin Young, managing director Jennifer Nipper and Evan Schaller presented.
Sonnenberg concentrates her practice in commercial finance, with a particular focus on asset-based and cash-flow financing for various industry sectors, including manufacturing, health care and other service industries.
She serves a range of clients, including banks, commercial finance companies, mezzanine lenders and other institutional lenders, along with private equity firms, hedge funds and publicly and privately held corporations in areas including commercial financing, asset-based financing, cash-flow financing, secured transactions, health care financing, real estate financing and mortgage warehouse financing.
She is member of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers and serves as vice chair on the American Bar Association business law section's commercial finance committee.
She earned her Juris Doctor from Temple University Beasley School of Law and is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
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