Debra L. Lofano

• Represented a major financial institution as master servicer, trustee and custodian in connection with the bankruptcies of servicers and mortgage loan sellers on various residential mortgage-backed securitization transactions.
• Represented major financial institutions as trustee and master servicer in residential mortgage-backed securitization transactions.

Debra Lofano is a senior associate in the Finance Group. Her practice focuses on mortgage-backed, asset-backed securitization and collateral and debt obligations. Recently she has counseled clients with transactional, bankruptcy and other litigation issues relating to the financial markets crisis and the resulting contraction of the global capital markets.

Debra received her J.D. in 2008 from Wake Forest University, where she served on the executive council of the Wake Forest Moot Court Board. She received her Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, in Italian and history of art and architecture from Middlebury College in 2001.

Debra is admitted to practice in the state courts of North Carolina; in the U.S. District Courts for the Western, Middle and Eastern Districts of North Carolina; and in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of North Carolina.

Bar Admissions

• North Carolina

Education

• Wake Forest University (J.D., 2008)
• Middlebury College (B.A., 2001)

Memberships