Elliot Ganz is the LSTA’s Head of Advocacy and Executive Director of the LSTA PAC.  Working closely with the LSTA policy team, he focuses on federal political advocacy and litigation management.  Prior to taking on that role in 2022, Elliot was the LSTA’s General Counsel and Co-Head of Policy.  Before joining the LSTA in 2005 Mr. Ganz worked for 22 years in senior legal positions at four major US and international banks. He began his legal career as an associate at a Wall Street law firm. He is a member of the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States, a fellow of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers and served as a member of the Committee on Financing Chapter 11 of the American Bankruptcy Institute’s Commission to Study the Reform of Chapter 11. Mr. Ganz has supervised the filing of two successful lawsuits against US regulators and over 25 amicus briefs on important loan and bankruptcy-related cases, including three briefs supporting successful appeals to each of the Supreme Court of the United States and the New York Court of Appeals.

He is a graduate of New York University School of Law and Queens College, City University of New York.