Valerie Mason

Valerie S. Mason has been a member of the WPA Board for 26 years. She is a Co-Chair of Lender Finance practice and a member of the finance and banking department at Otterbourg P.C. Her practice focuses primarily on the representation of domestic and foreign banks, commercial finance companies, and hedge funds in the structuring and restructuring of financing transactions, including revolving credit facilities and term loans for acquisitions, refinancings, and restructurings and general working capital needs, workout arrangements, acquisition financing, lender finance transactions, Chapter 11 debtor-in-possession, and “exit” financing facilities and other secured lending transactions. 

In addition to her law practice, Valerie is a member of the Women in Secured Finance Committee of the Secured Finance Network, the past president and a current member of the Board of Directors of the Women’s Prison Association, serving as Chair of the Development Committee, and a member of the Audit Committee. Valerie is currently serving a third term as a member of Manhattan’s Community Board 8 in New York City, where she serves as the Co-Chair of the Small Business Committee. For the last two years, she served as CB8’s Second Vice-Chair and has recently been elected to serve as the Community Board’s First Vice Chair for 2023.