Lisa M Kresge

Brennan Scungio & Kresge LLP

Providence, RI

26+ Years Experience

Licensed in 2 States

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About Lisa

Lisa Kresge was named an equity partner in the firm in January of 2023 and a named partner in the firm in April of 2024 when the firm rebranded as Brennan Scungio & Kresge LLP. She also assumed the role of co-managing partner of the firm in April of 2024. Lisa joined the firm’s Providence office in 2011 from the Boston office of Brown Rudnick, where she was a partner. She oversees the firm’s commercial finance and creditors’ rights practice. With a focus on commercial finance, she represents businesses and financial institutions - including banks, credit unions, and mortgage servicers - in both transactional work and commercial litigation. She handles corporate restructuring and creditors’ rights matters, representing secured creditors, trade claimants and other parties-in-interest in Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 bankruptcy and receivership cases in jurisdictions across the US. She routinely counsels commercial lenders and borrowers in connection with secured and unsecured credit facilities, asset-based financing, loan workouts, commercial and residential foreclosures and other lending and business transactions. Lisa is frequent writer and speaker on bankruptcy, receivership and foreclosure law topics. A court-appointed receiver for the RI Superior Court, she is a member of the Rhode Island Women’s Bar Association, the American Bar Association, and the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation. She was President of the Rhode Island Women’s Bar Association for the 2024-2025 membership year and Co-Chair of the Board of New England network of the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation and was recently elected to serve on the board of the National Conference of Women’s Bar Associations. She was recognized as a Leader in the Law by Rhode Island Lawyers Weekly and for Excellence in Law by Rhode Island Monthly in the practice area of Bankruptcy & Workout.