Elizabeth Yazgi

Assistant General Counsel
(212) 880-3016

Part of LSTA’s senior leadership team, Elizabeth is focused on the drafting and negotiation of LSTA’s suite of standardized primary and secondary loan market documentation. Notably, she spearheaded the creation of LSTA’s “Private Corporate Credit – Representative Liability Management Transaction Protections for Credit Agreements,” which offers approaches to help lenders draft robust protective language in their agreements. In her day-to-day, she engages with market stakeholders from corporate and investment banks to industry regulators on developments in the international loan space. Elizabeth also leads the Association’s sustainability and sustainable lending projects, collaborating with global stakeholders on key guidance for sustainable debt instruments, such as the green and sustainability-linked loan frameworks and the “Model Credit Agreement Provisions for Green Loans.” (Her recent publications are listed below.)

Before joining LSTA, Elizabeth practiced as a debt finance attorney at Morrison & Foerster LLP, White & Case LLP and Linklaters LLP in New York.

After receiving her master’s in French from the New York University Institute of French Studies, she earned her J.D. from New York University School of Law and is admitted as an attorney in New York.

Committee and working group involvement

Latin American Initiative Working Group

Developing legal documents for originating and trading cross-border loans
Role: Committee Chair

Sustainability Committee

Participating in sustainability initiatives
Role: Committee Chair

Recent publications

A centralized tool for members to track proposed rulemakings, consultations, and key regulatory milestones.
This table refers to leveraged and certain structured loans and should be read only as illustrative of common controls.
This note offers an illustrative overview of what that process looks like in practice.
This Guidance Note examines the "reverse solicitation" exemption under CRD VI, providing practical guidance and sample language for loan market documentation.
As Q2 cooled, refinancings led and credit selectivity sharpened, shaping how covenants are evolving heading into H2. Read full coverage.
This session offered a practical overview of the fast‑evolving legal and commercial landscape for digital asset lending, highlighting key issues in collateral structures, security‑interest perfection, valuation, and enforcement.
This replay offers a streamlined look at the rapidly evolving legal and commercial landscape for digital asset lending, highlighting key considerations around collateral structures, security‑interest perfection, valuation, and enforcement.
Now available: the updated Model Credit Agreement Provisions for BSL transactions, covering core provisions commonly incorporated into leveraged finance credit agreements.
Please find the blackline comparing the updated Model Credit Agreement Provisions for BSL transactions to the version published in May 2023....
Please find the final form of the LSTA Model Credit Agreement Provisions for Private Corporate Credit Deals (“PCC MCAPs”), along with a blackline to the existing BSL LevFin MCAPs, on which this document is based. 

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