Elizabeth A. LaPuma

Elizabeth LaPuma is a financial expert and advisor with nearly 20 years of experience. Elizabeth LaPuma is a Managing Director at UBS focusing on financial institutions financing, structuring and M&A. She has been involved in landmark financial institution assignments around the globe and has achieved superior results for clients over nearly 20 years.

Previously Ms. LaPuma ran Alvarez & Marsal’s Asset Management practice. Before joining A&M, Ms. LaPuma worked with BlackRock Financial Markets Advisory Group, where she was part of initiating the group’s client coverage model with primary responsibility for more than 30 of the largest financial institutions, including banks, insurance companies, government regulators, private equity, hedge funds and specialty finance companies.

Earlier, she worked at Lazard Freres & Co. within their financial institutions and restructuring group, leading teams in three of the 10 largest bankruptcies during the financial crisis, as well as other significant restructuring assignments.

She has completed the sale of public and private companies, buy-side advisories and fairness opinions, public and private debt and equity offerings, leading all phases of transactions and negotiated numerous merger and private placement agreements.

Ms. LaPuma earned a B.S. in finance and an MBA from the Wharton School, and a B.A. from the School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, graduating from Wharton as a Palmer Scholar.