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Nowak joins Certilman Balin Adler & Hyman's commercial lending group

Jessica Nowak

East Meadow, NY Jessica Nowak has joined Certilman Balin Adler & Hyman, LLP as an associate in the commercial lending and banking group.

Prior to joining the firm, Nowak was an associate attorney in the commercial lending department at Brown Altman & DiLeo, LLP. She acted as lender’s counsel to multiple local and national banking institutions in connection with secured and unsecured commercial lending transactions. These included: mortgages, refinances, construction loans, renovation loans, cooperative loans, assignments, modifications, partial leases, lines of credit, and term loans. In addition, she was assistant counsel to the Suffolk County Legislature.

Nowak earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Miami School of Law in 2018. She served on the International and Comparative Law Review and was a Dean’s Scholarship recipient. Nowak earned her Bachelor of Business Administration degree in 2015 from Emory University Goizueta Business School with a major in accounting.

She currently serves on the board of the Townwide Fund of Huntington, Inc. and as a co-chair of the Long Island Chapter of the Risk Management Association (RMA), Young Professionals Group.

Nowak is admitted to practice in the states of New York and Florida.

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