Elaine C. Tapp

Representations include:

• LHC Group Inc. in its $2.4 billion merger with Almost Family, and in its subsequent $5.4 billion sale to UnitedHealth Group.
• Weyerhaeuser in its $2.65 billion acquisition of Longview Timber Holdings.
• American Proteins in the $850 million sale of its poultry rendering and blending assets to Tyson Foods.
• Memorial Health University Medical Center in its $700 million sale to HCA.
• Goldman Sachs in its sale of a company operating hydroelectric plants in Turkey.
• The Carlyle Group, Madison Dearborn Partners, Ridgemont Equity Partners, RedBird Capital Partners, Tudor, and other prominent private equity firms and their portfolio companies in a wide variety of transactions and matters.
• Tropical Smoothie Café in its sale to Levine Leichtman Capital Partners.
• N3, LLC in its sale to Accenture.
• Zingle in its sale to Medallia.
• A global solutions provider in the automotive industry in a variety of transactions, including the sale of its joint venture interest in a company providing fleet management solutions and the sale of an international provider of dealer management systems.

Elaine Tapp represents public and private companies and financial sponsors in a broad range of complex corporate and transactional matters, including acquisitions, divestitures, carveouts, and joint ventures, corporate financings, corporate governance, and other general corporate matters.

Elaine was previously an associate in the New York offices of two leading international law firms, a research specialist at the SEC’s Division of Investment Management, and a financial analyst at a leading private equity and venture capital firm in Silicon Valley and Hong Kong.

Elaine has been recognized for her M&A expertise in The Best Lawyers in America^©. She serves on the board of directors of the Atlanta Classical Academy.

She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School and her B.A. in international relations from Stanford University, where she graduated with honors and distinction and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.

Languages

• Korean
• French
• Italian

Bar Admissions

• New York
• Georgia

Education

• Harvard University (J.D., 2012)
• Stanford University (B.A., 2007)

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