Lisa Hanson

Senior Vice President, Bank of America

Lisa joined Bank of America in mid-2024 as Head of ABL Underwriting for Leveraged Finance, East Region Middle Market and Business Banking, and International ABL. In this role, Lisa oversees a team that works alongside leveraged finance, banking and ABL business development partners to pitch, structure and negotiate everything from small to jumbo ABLs for both corporate and sponsor clients, while ensuring risk approval internally.

Prior to joining Bank of America, Lisa was at Morgan Stanley for 15 years, where she served as Head of ABL, focusing on leveraged buyouts, strategic acquisitions, rescue financings and restructurings, including DIP and exit financings, and general corporate purpose financings both domestically and internationally.  She also served as Head of Leveraged Finance Administrative Agency Team, cultivating and maintaining relationships with C-Suite executives to manage lender group relations, earnings and transaction announcements, amendment and waiver requests and restructurings, working closely with the GCM Chief Risk Officer and internal/external counsel to navigate complex and sensitive client and market-facing issues that required relationship, legal, regulatory and reputational risk management. She also held a role providing general Leveraged Finance coverage for select clients in the Technology Sector. Lisa began her career at JPMorgan Chase on the Investment Bank ABL team.