Elina Tetelbaum is a Corporate Partner at Wachtell Lipton.

Ms. Tetelbaum has advised both public and private companies in a wide range of industries in connection with mergers and acquisitions and capital markets transactions. Ms. Tetelbaum has also advised with respect to proxy contests, takeover defense strategies and other corporate governance matters. Ms. Tetelbaum has been named a Dealmaker of the Year by The American Lawyer, was recognized as one of The Deal’s Top Women in Dealmaking and a Law 360 Rising Star for M&A, among other honors. Recent transactions include:

• Kansas City Southern in its $31 billion acquisition by Canadian Pacific Railway
• Vulcan Materials in its $1.294 billion acquisition of U.S. Concrete
• Constellation Pharmaceuticals in its $1.7 billion acquisition by MorphoSys AG
• Allergan in its $83 billion acquisition by AbbVie
• Regeneron Pharmaceuticals in the $11.6 billion secondary offering and repurchase of its stock held by Sanofi
• PDC Energy in its successful response to a proxy fight led by Kimmeridge Energy Management and in its $1.7 billion acquisition of SRC Energy
• Dorian LPG in its response to the $1.1 billion unsolicited proposal for all its outstanding common shares and associated proxy contest by BW LPG
• Envision Healthcare in its $9.9 billion sale to KKR
• AbbVie in its $21 billion acquisition of Pharmacyclics
• Forest Laboratories, Inc. in its $28 billion acquisition by Actavis plc.
• Valeant Pharmaceuticals International in its $1.3 billion sale of its CeraVe, Ambi and Acne Free brands and related assets to L’Oréal USA
• Expedia in the initial public offering of its subsidiary, trivago N.V.
• Match.Com, Inc. in its $575 million purchase of Plentyoffish Media Inc.
• Constellium N.V. in its $383 million initial public offering
• Vulcan Materials Company in its response to the $4.7 billion unsolicited offer for all its outstanding common shares and associated proxy contest by Martin Marietta Materials, Inc.

Ms. Tetelbaum received an A.B. magna cum laude in Economics from Harvard University, as a John Harvard Scholar and was elected a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Ms. Tetelbaum completed a J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow and served as editor-in-chief of the Yale Journal on Regulation and editor of the Yale Law Journal. After law school, Ms. Tetelbaum served as a law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Ms. Tetelbaum is the President of the Stuyvesant High School Alumni Association as well as a director. Previously, she served as secretary to the Corporation Law Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and Secretary of the First Generation Harvard Alumni.