Elise Wagner was one of the honorees at the Mann Charitable Foundations’ Leading Ladies gala, held on May 13 in New York. The annual event honors the foremost women executives in the apparel, real estate, hedge fund and banking industries. Also among the honorees was Kramer Levin alumni Pamela Swidler, Global Head of Real Estate Transactions and Special Counsel at WeWork.

The Mann Charitable Foundation was founded in memory of Marion and Irving Mann, with a mission to fund research for geriatric diseases, including Alzheimer’s, Crohn’s and colitis, liver cancer and breast cancer.