Biography
Vanessa Jackson is a partner at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, practicing in the Finance group. She represents borrowers and lenders on a broad range of finance transactions, including leveraged and investment-grade acquisition financings, spin-offs, debtor-in-possession financings, exit financings and other secured and unsecured financings. She serves as Co- Chair of the firm’s Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Committee and is a member of the firm’s Black Affinity Group Steering Committee. Vanessa was named a 2022 “Rising Star” in banking by Law360, and the Partnership for New York City named her to its 2022 Class of David Rockefeller Fellows. Also in 2022, she was listed among Crain’s New York Business’s “Notable Women in Law,” Savoy’s “Most Influential Black Lawyers,” IFLR1000’s “Women Leaders: United States” and the Minority Corporate Counsel Association’s “Rising Stars.” She also served on Law360’s 2022 Diversity & Inclusion Editorial Advisory Board. Vanessa received her Bachelor of Science in economics from Duke University in 2009. In 2012, she received her Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and Managing Editor of the Columbia Journal of Race and Law.