Lippes Mathias today announced that Svetlana (Lana) K. Ivy, partner and leader of the firm’s appellate team, has been selected by the Rochester Business Journal as a 2025 Women of Excellence honoree. 

The Women of Excellence awards recognizes high-achieving women for their professional accomplishments, leadership and commitment to mentoring. Honorees were selected based on career experience, community involvement and sustained contributions to their organizations and beyond. Ivy will be recognized at the Women of Excellence Awards celebration on May 8, 2025. She was previously recognized by the Rochester Business Journal on its Leaders in Law list in 2022 and its Forty Under 40 list in 2019. 

About Svetlana (Lana) K. Ivy 

Ivy focuses her practice on high-stakes commercial disputes in New York state and federal courts, and she serves as the firm’s appellate team leader. She has substantial experience resolving disputes early as well as seeing cases through arbitration or trial and through the appellate process. She has represented clients in myriad industries, including financial services, energy, life settlements, health care, telecommunications, food and beverage manufacturing, and payroll services. 

At the trial level, Ivy has litigated a wide variety of business disputes arising out of asset purchase agreements, trust agreements, vendor agreements, transactions to purchase life insurance policies on the secondary market, employment agreements and other contracts. She also frequently litigates trust and estate matters in Surrogate’s Courts around New York. Ivy has represented numerous parties bringing CPLR Article 78 proceedings to challenge agency actions and has defended municipalities and agency boards against such challenges. She has extensive experience with emergency applications for relief in various forums. 

Ivy has considerable appellate experience, having briefed and argued cases at the Appellate Division level throughout New York state, as well as before the New York Court of Appeals. While her trial-level practice is focused on business and trust and estate disputes, she has worked on a wide range of appeals involving all kinds of subject matters, including medical malpractice and mass tort cases. She regularly handles or consults other attorneys on motions for leave to appeal to the Court of Appeals, and she has also worked on a pro bono basis with the Monroe County Public Defender’s Office on several criminal appeals. Ivy is a co-author of the New York Appellate Practice treatise, published by LexisNexis, and has been a frequent speaker on both trial and appellate issues for Monroe County Bar Association and New York State Bar Association CLE programs. 

About Lippes Mathias LLP 

Lippes Mathias is a full-service law firm with more than 220 attorneys serving clients regionally, nationally, and internationally. With offices in Buffalo, Clarence, Albany, Long Island, New York, Rochester, Syracuse, and Saratoga Springs, N.Y.; Greater Toronto Area; Chicago, Ill.; Jacksonville and West Palm Beach, Fla.; Cleveland, Ohio; San Antonio, Texas; Oklahoma City, Okla. and Washington, D.C., the firm represents publicly and privately-owned companies, private equity and venture capital firms, independent sponsors, real estate developers, financial institutions, municipalities, governmental entities, and individuals.