About
Elizabeth C. Yoo represents clients in mergers and acquisitions, asset sales, and stock sales at Day Pitney LLP. She also handles equity financings, debt financings, and restructurings. She represents clients in joint ventures and other business alliances. She negotiates restrictive covenants, escrow agreements, and shareholders' agreements in corporate transactions. Elizabeth C. Yoo earned her J.D. in 2006 from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, and a B.A. from Barnard College, Columbia University, in 2000, and she clerked full time for Chief Judge Kimba M. Wood in the Southern District of New York. She also counsels institutional lenders, borrowers, and investors on asset-based and syndicated loans, experience she draws on when financing is part of an asset or stock sale.
Who is a good fit for Elizabeth C. Yoo
- Owners selling a company through an asset sale or a stock sale.
- Parties negotiating escrow, restrictive covenant, or shareholders' agreements in a corporate transaction.
- Parties forming a joint venture or another business alliance.
- Companies undertaking a restructuring as part of a transaction.
Education and admissions
- Education
- Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, J.D., 2006
- Barnard College, Columbia University, B.A., 2000
- Bar admissions
- New Jersey, New York
Recognition
- Chosen for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America (Woodward/White, Inc.), Corporate Governance Law, 2026-2027; Corporate Law, 2026-2027
- Selected to the list of "Up and Coming" Chambers USA Legal Directory (Chambers & Partners) for Corporate/M&A in New Jersey, 2021-2022
- Selected to the list of Ones to Watch by The Best Lawyers in America (Woodward/White, Inc.) for Corporate Law, 2021-2025; and Public Finance Law, 2021-2025
- Selected to the list of "Associates to Watch" Chambers USA Legal Directory (Chambers & Partners) for Corporate/M&A in New Jersey, 2020
Specialties
Representative matters
As described on the firm’s website.
- Representing an institutional lender in connection with a loan facility to finance the acquisition of a division of a large pharmaceutical company (lender side)
- Representing a startup retirement services company in connection with an acquisition of a similar company
- Representing a successful blog in the sale of its business to a major subsidiary of a media conglomerate
- Representing a leading company in the metal fabrication industry in the sale of its business
- Representing a battery storage facility developer in project debt and equity financing transactions with a private equity group
- Representing an institutional lender in connection with a $250 million syndicated credit facility ($250,000,000, lender side)
Deal profile
- Typical deal size
- Any deal size
- Remote work
- In-person / regional