Howard L Ellin

Howard L. Ellin is a corporate attorney concentrating in mergers and acquisitions, securities law and general corporate matters. He focuses on a wide variety of transactions involving various industry groups and sectors, including private equity and leveraged buyouts, public and private acquisitions, corporate restructurings and financings, and general corporate advice.

Mr. Ellin has been named one of The American Lawyer’s Dealmakers of the Year and repeatedly selected for inclusion in Chambers Global, Chambers USA, The Legal 500 U.S., The Best Lawyers in America and IFLR1000. He also has been recognized by Lawdragon as one of its Legends of Law, 500 Leading Lawyers in America and 500 Leading Dealmakers in America, as well as noted as one of MergerLinks’ Top Private Equity Lawyers in North America and selected to Variety’s Dealmakers Elite New York list.

Member, Board of Trustees, Carnegie-Mellon University; Board of Trustees, NALP Foundation Chairman of the Board ; Board of Advisors Metallica's All Within My Hands Foundation.

Mr. Ellin has represented clients in many of the largest and most important M&A transactions in recent years including: 21st Century Fox, Inc. in its $66 billion acquisition by The Walt Disney Company and the related pre-merger spin-off of certain businesses; Express Scripts Holding Company in its $67 billion acquisition by the Cigna Corporation; Red Hat, Inc. in its $34 billion acquisition by IBM Corporation and LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton S.E. in its $15.9 billion acquisition of Tiffany & Co.