Working closely with the LSTA policy team, Elliot focuses on political advocacy and litigation management. He serves as executive director of the LSTA’s grassroots advocacy affiliate, The Business Loans Coalition, and the LSTA PAC. Before taking the lead on LSTA’s advocacy efforts, Elliot was the Association’s general counsel and co-head of policy. Over his years with LSTA, he has supervised the filing of two successful lawsuits against U.S. regulators and more than 25 amicus briefs on important loan- and bankruptcy-related cases, including six briefs supporting successful appeals to the Supreme Court and New York Court of Appeals.
Prior to joining the LSTA in 2005, Elliot worked for 22 years in senior legal positions at four major U.S. and international banks, and before that, as an associate at a Wall Street law firm.
Elliot is a graduate of New York University School of Law and Queens College, City University of New York. He is a member of the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States, a fellow of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers, and served on a committee of the ABI’s Commission to Study the Reform of Chapter 11.
