Elizabeth Barber

Elizabeth advises clients on a broad range of corporate and transactional matters, with a focus on public and private mergers and acquisitions, including buy‑side and sell‑side transactions, carve‑outs and strategic divestitures, cross‑border joint ventures and strategic partnerships, including governance structuring, minority protections and exit mechanics, corporate venture capital and strategic minority investments, including growth‑oriented and cross‑border investments in emerging technologies and innovation platforms, venture and growth equity financings, including investor rights, governance arrangements and change‑of‑control considerations, ongoing corporate governance and strategic advisory matters for founders, management teams and boards of directors.

Elizabeth regularly collaborates with Baker McKenzie colleagues across jurisdictions and practices to deliver integrated, end‑to‑end transactional support on complex domestic and international matters.

• Orora on its USD 1.2 billion sale of its North American packaging and distribution business to PE-backed Veritiv Corporation.
• Newly Weds Foods, a food ingredient manufacturer operating in 90+ countries in its USD 4 billion+ sale to Redwood Holdings.
• Vandemoortele, a European family-owned food group, in a strategic partnership with Banneton Bakery, a North American manufacturer of premium frozen bakery products.
• McDonalds Corporation in its acquisitions of artificial intelligence companies Apprente, a voice-based technology startup, and Dynamic Yield, a personalization platform and decision engine company.
• Vistra, the global business services group, in multi-jurisdictional expansion through multiple acquisitions spanning 15+ countries.
• DENSO Corporation, a global automotive and industrial technology company, in its USD 500 million strategic investment in the silicon carbide semiconductor business of Coherent Corp.
• Abbott Laboratories on its USD 890 million acquisition of medical device company Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.
• Corporate venture capital investors in minority and strategic investments across consumer beauty, ag-tech/biotech, robotics, and mobility and transportation technologies, including cross-border investments in sustainable bio-based inputs, deep-tech and industrial innovation, and next-generation transportation platforms.
• Emerging growth companies across Series Seed through Series D financing rounds, including businesses operating in sustainable food systems and ag‑tech, consumer and household robotics, digital wealth and asset management technology, and biotechnology and life sciences, advising on primary and follow‑on financings, investor rights, governance matters and change of control transactions.
• National commercial real estate services company on the acquisition of a real estate advisory business and on multiple add-on asset acquisitions to expand service offerings and geographic reach.
• Public and private companies on cross border joint ventures and strategic partnerships, including governance structuring, minority protections and exit mechanics.

*Includes matters undertaken at a different law firm

• Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois – Member
• National LGBTQ+ Bar – Member