Elina Tetelbaum

Education

  • Harvard University, A.B. 2007, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, John Harvard Scholar
  • Yale Law School, J.D. 2010, (Editor-in-Chief, Submissions Director and Articles Editor, Yale Journal on Regulation and Editor, Yale Law Journal)

Clerkships

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 2010 – 2011

Elina Tetelbaum

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
  • Allergan in its $83 billion acquisition by AbbVie
  • National Instruments in its $8.2 billion acquisition by Emerson
  • PDC Energy in its $7.6 billion acquisition by Chevron
  • Forest Laboratories, Inc. in its $28 billion acquisition by Actavis plc.
  • Envision Healthcare in its $9.9 billion acquisition by KKR
  • Regeneron Pharmaceuticals in the $11.6 billion secondary offering and repurchase of its stock held by Sanofi
  • Constellation Pharmaceuticals in its $1.7 billion acquisition by MorphoSys AG
  • AbbVie in its $21 billion acquisition of Pharmacyclics
  • Vulcan Materials Company in its $1.294 billion acquisition of U.S. Concrete and its response to the $4.7 billion unsolicited offer by Martin Marietta Materials
  • Dorian LPG in its response to the $1.1 billion unsolicited proposal by BW LPG
  • Expedia in the initial public offering of its subsidiary, trivago N.V.

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.

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