Jana Lama advises public and private corporate clients, financial institutions and private equity sponsors on a range of secured and unsecured debt and acquisition financing transactions. Her practice includes structuring and negotiating royalty purchase and other specialty finance arrangements, asset-based lending facilities, leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, debt capital markets transactions, venture debt and mezzanine and subordinated debt financings.

Ms. Lama works with clients across various industries with a particular focus in life sciences, and also including technology, financial services and consumer products. Jana also has experience with real estate-related finance and multi-party collateral structures. She is an active member of the Colorado legal community, devoting significant time and resources to local non-profit board service. Prior to joining WilmerHale, Ms. Lama was an associate at another major international law firm in New York.

Recognition

  • Named in the 2025 edition of Chambers USA Guide in Colorado for banking and finance.
  • Selected by peers for inclusion in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch for Corporate Law (2024–2025) and Corporate Governance and Compliance Law (2024–2025).

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Credentials

  • Education

    • JD, Georgetown University Law Center, 2017

      Legal Practice Law Fellow, Notes Editor, Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law
    • BA, Psychology, Harvard University, 2012

  • Admissions

    • Colorado

    • New York

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