Karen Buzard
Partner
New York
Karen Buzard
Partner
New York
Contact details
Karen advises on a broad range of transactional law issues, specializing in banking and finance. As part of A&O’s Markets Innovation Group, a group of lawyers and developers who are focused on the creation of innovative solutions for clients to meet large-scale legal and regulatory challenges, she specializes in delivering technology and resourcing solutions to our clients for our U.S. banking practice.
In addition, Karen is a core member and heads up the US banking efforts on the firm’s cross-border working group focused on helping clients navigate and prepare for the impact and implications of a transition away from LIBOR.
Her expertise includes extensive knowledge and use of various types of legal technologies, including artificial intelligence, document automation and deal management platforms. Her legal background covers the full spectrum of secured and unsecured corporate debt finance as well as other transaction matters. Karen is admitted to practice in New York and received a BS from Fordham University and her JD from Fordham University School of Law.
Qualifications
Professional
Registered Foreign Lawyer, England and Wales, 2024
Admitted: Bar of the State of New York, 2003
Academic
J.D., Fordham University School of Law, 2002
B.S., Fordham University, 1998
Related articles
Publications: 12 January 2024
Allen & Overy partners Jake Mincemoyer, Stanimir Kostov, Ilona Potiha Laor and Karen Buzard, and associates Eugene Pevzner and Dimitar Grozdanov authored a chapter for the sixth edition of the Legal…
News: 27 September 2023
Allen & Overy to host 7th annual U.S. Leveraged Finance Training Camp
Publications: 18 January 2023
Allen & Overy partners author U.S. chapter of Legal 500’s Acquisition Finance Comparative Guide 2023
Qualifications
Professional
Registered Foreign Lawyer, England and Wales, 2024
Admitted: Bar of the State of New York, 2003
Academic
J.D., Fordham University School of Law, 2002
B.S., Fordham University, 1998
Other noteworthy experience
Advising:
- Karen has helped develop the following proprietary A&O tools:
- IBOR Matrix- a system designed to facilitate the transition away from LIBOR and other interest rates, involving a cutting edge approach to the use of artificial intelligence;
- Contract matrix – a system that assists with AI powered contract review, document automation and legal operations and risk management.
Pro bono
- Advising small businesses on corporate matters at Goldman Sachs Virtual Legal Clinic.
Published work
- Co-author, "Recurring Revenue Financings: Market Update," The Legal 500: Acquisition Finance Comparative Guide, 2024
- Co-author, “Structuring and Restructuring European Leveraged Finance Transactions,"" Thomson Reuters Practical Law, 2021
