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Lisa M. Campisi represents corporate policyholder clients in high-profile insurance coverage disputes. She brings more than 25 years of experience as a trusted high-level adviser to her clients in all insurance-related areas of their businesses. She has wide-ranging experience in litigating insurance coverage cases, and has been retained as an insurance litigator, adviser, and counselor for a broad array of clients, including financial services firms, private equity firms and their portfolio companies, hedge funds, and numerous Fortune 100 companies.Chambers USA notes that clients describe Lisa as “‘very smart, creative and hard-working,’” and also praise her “‘very practical and common-sense approach.’” She counsels and litigates insurance coverage issues for clients across virtually all types of insurance coverage, including:<ul>	<li>Directors’ and Officers’/Management Liability (“D&amp;O”)</li>	<li>Errors and Omissions (“E&amp;O”)</li>	<li>Professional liability</li>	<li>Representations and warranty&nbsp;(“R&amp;W”)</li>	<li>Environmental, toxic tort, and product liability</li>	<li>General liability</li>	<li>Cyber liability including data breach and privacy</li>	<li>Employment practices liability (“EPL”)</li>	<li>Fiduciary liability</li>	<li>Trade credit&nbsp;</li>	<li>Political risk&nbsp;</li>	<li>Cargo</li>	<li>Crime</li>	<li>Fidelity bond</li></ul>In addition to her extensive litigation experience, Lisa also has broad experience in advising on underwriting, claims handling, and other insurance-related and risk management issues. Such experience applies to both domestic and foreign markets and includes providing advice on all insurance aspects of mergers, acquisitions, restructurings, and other transactions, including providing consultation and advice in the placement and negotiation of transactional-related coverage.Prior to joining Blank Rome, Lisa worked in the litigation department of a global law firm where her practice focused on insurance coverage litigation and insurance counseling.

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<li>Lead insurance coverage counsel to Chiquita Brands International in two insurance coverage actions against its insurers involving underlying tort claims that Chiquita had illegally financed terrorist groups in Colombia, in violation of the Anti-Terrorism Act and the Alien Tort Statute, and that the plaintiffs in those suits suffered damage as a result of the terrorists’ operations.</li>
<li>Lead insurance coverage counsel to a private equity client in seeking recovery under buy-side representations &amp; warranties coverage in connection with losses resulting from multiple breaches made by the seller in connection with the client’s acquisition of a worldwide leading provider of managed clothing services and uniform solutions to large organizations with complex uniform requirements. The insurer denied coverage and after active negotiations with the insurer led by Lisa, the matter settled very favorably for the client in spring 2023.</li>
<li>Lead attorney for a leading supplier of poultry, pet and ingredient products in its pursuit of recovery under buy-side representations &amp; warranties insurance coverage for losses resulting from multiple breaches made by the seller in connection with the client’s strategic acquisition. This resulted in a confidential settlement in spring 2022, with terms highly favorable to the client.</li>
<li>Lead attorney in hard fought state court coverage litigation on behalf a solid waste, recycling, and resource management services company seeking coverage for liabilities in the mid-eight figures associated with alleged contamination of drinking water. After defeating the insurer’s motion for summary judgment, obtained a highly favorable settlement.</li>
<li>Secured insurance coverage participation in a significant settlement, on the verge of trial, for a multinational wire and cable company stemming from a six-year case brought by the Housing Authority for the City of Los Angeles over an industrial site in the city’s Watts neighborhood, for which the client faced exposure for a potential judgment of more than $31 million in cleanup costs. </li>
<li>Lead insurance coverage counsel in a complex, multi-insurer environmental insurance coverage action seeking coverage against general liability and pollution legal liability insurers for damages in excess of $50 million involving alleged TCE contamination of groundwater resulting from the operations of the client, a multinational manufacturer of specialty steel products. After several successive victories in court, including defeating various jurisdictional and forum-related motions in trial court and through all levels of appeals and seeking summary judgment, successfully negotiated a settlement on terms highly favorable to the client.</li>
<li>Lead attorney on behalf of a major multinational manufacturer of heating and air conditioning equipment in a complex, multijurisdictional insurance and indemnity dispute between the client, its former division, and the client’s historic general liability insurers relating to coverage for the client’s historic asbestos liabilities, indemnity claims asserted by the client’s former division for the division’s asbestos liabilities, and the insurer’s retrospective premium obligation claims. Briefed, argued, and defeated the insurer’s and former division’s multiple summary judgment motions.</li>
<li>Co-lead attorney in prosecuting claims for insurance coverage for separate multimillion-dollar settlements on behalf of a large international investment bank client under a run-off professional services/management liability policy. Briefed, argued, and obtained a summary judgment declaring coverage for the client’s underlying $35 million settlement. Litigation ultimately resulted in a nine-figure settlement on terms favorable to the client.</li>
<li>Lead attorney in the full recovery of nearly $10 million in losses under a crime insurance policy on behalf of a premier accounting and business management firm based in Los Angeles and New York, with an “AA-List” roster of celebrity clients, stemming from employee theft from one of the firm’s highest-profile celebrity clients.</li>
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Select recent representative insurance counseling/transactional matters:
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<li>Negotiated the underwriting and placement of buy-side representations and warranty policies on dozens of transactions over the past decade, including:
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<li>A representations and warranty policy in connection with a client’s strategic acquisition, valued at $310 million, of the entire share capital of a provider of truckload carriage and logistics services.</li>
<li>A representations and warranty policy in connection with a private investment firm’s acquisition of the designer and builder of customized material handling systems, storage retrieval systems, and automated conveyance solutions for customers throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the United Kingdom.</li>
<li>A buy-side representations and warranty policy, and provided insurance diligence counseling and advice relating to the adequacy and responsiveness of the target’s existing liability insurance, in connection with a private equity client’s $300 million acquisition of one of the world’s largest manufacturers and distributors of polyurethane spray foam insulation, with operations in Canada and the United States.</li>
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