Elizabeth Smith
Lawyers
Associate in our Executive Compensation practice.
Elizabeth’s practice focuses on advising public and private company clients on a wide range of executive compensation matters, including in the context of mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, IPOs and other transactions. She also advises clients on the design and implementation of equity and cash incentive compensation and retention arrangements; the negotiation of employment, severance and change in control agreements; and compensation-related corporate governance and disclosure matters.
Experience
Recent Work
- Arcadium Lithium $6.7 billion acquisition by Rio Tinto
- Airbus potential acquisition of certain Spirit AeroSystems activities
- Everfox acquisition of Garrison Technology
- UMB Financial $2 billion acquisition of Heartland Financial
- AssetMark $2.7 billion acquisition by GTCR
- Crane NXT $270 million acquisition of OpSec Security
- Campbell Soup $2.7 billion acquisition of Sovos Brands
- Francisco Partners and TPG $6.5 billion acquisition of New Relic
- Braze acquisition of North Star
Education
J.D., New York University School of Law
- summa cum laude
- Law Review Alumni Association Award
- Order of the Coif
- Executive Editor, New York University Law Review
B.A., History, Princeton University
Qualifications and admissions
- State of New York