Elin Lassen

• Represented the founder of a South Carolina-based manufacturing and distributing company in the sale of the company to a strategic Swedish acquirer.
• Represented a leading middle-market private equity fund in multiple transactions in the communications, services, and software spaces, including divestitures of a maritime logistics services company and digital promotion, rebate, and loyalty program company.
• Represented a private-equity-backed veterinary practice holding company in numerous add-on acquisitions and related transactions in the veterinary practice space.
• Represented a private equity-backed power plant holding company in multiple sale transactions to both international and domestic acquirers.
• Represented a publicly traded multinational beverage corporation in its approximately $18.7 billion strategic merger.
• Represented the world’s leading learning company in its sale of a 22 percent stake in a joint venture and related recapitalization to a German media, services, and education company.
• Represented a leading provider of addiction treatment in its acquisition of a licensed mental health and chemical dependency treatment provider and related follow-on transactions.
• Represented a health care services private investment firm in its investment in a major provider of primary care and ancillary patient diagnostic services.
• Represented a publicly traded health insurance provider in its $6.8 billion sale to a major health care company.

Elin Lassen is a senior associate in Alston & Bird’s Corporate & Business Transactions Group. She focuses her practice on advising public and private companies, management teams, and founders on transactional and general corporate matters, including domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, add-on transactions, joint ventures, and strategic alliances, as well as corporate governance and compliance matters.

Elin is recognized in the 2023 edition of The Best Lawyers in America^© “Ones to Watch” in the Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law category.

Elin earned her J.D., summa cum laude, from Yeshiva University’s Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. She served as a submissions editor of the Cardozo Law Review and was also a Heyman Scholar in The Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Center on Corporate Governance, where she focused on corporate and securities laws and their financial, business, and regulatory contexts.

Bar Admissions

• New York
• North Carolina (Not Admitted)

Education

• Yeshiva University (J.D., 2014)
• University of Vermont (B.A., 2010)