Elaine Yao
First Vice President
eyao@shattuckhammond.com
212.314.0400

Elaine Yao is a First Vice President in our New York office. Ms. Yao works with a variety of healthcare clients providing mergers and acquisition advisory services, as well as debt restructuring and issuance advice. Her clients include multi-hospital systems, long-term care facilities, managed care companies and pharmaceutical benefits managers.

Ms. Yao has over ten years of investment banking experience in both fixed income and mergers and acquisitions. She started her career in 1988 at the municipal finance department of Goldman Sachs & Co., structuring new money offerings, advance refunding issues and innovative debt products. During her three year tenure at Goldman, Ms. Yao worked on over $3 billion in financings. Her clients included The City of New York, Commonwealth of Massachusetts and New Denver International Airport, among others. Ms. Yao also worked on the debt capital markets desk in the London office of Goldman Sachs. From 1993 to 1994, Ms. Yao worked at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), a multilateral institution, dedicated to developing Eastern European economies. From 1994 to 1996, Ms. Yao served as an Associate at Merrill Lynch & Co. in the project finance department working on power plant transactions for municipal issuers as well as 144A debt issuers. From 1996 to 2001, Ms. Yao was a Vice President at Pedersen Kammert & Co., providing mergers and acquisitions advisory services to middle market, primarily private companies. During her tenure at PK&Co., Ms. Yao worked on valuation, sale and advisory transactions in a variety of industries including healthcare, luxury goods, and industrial manufacturing.

Ms. Yao received her B.S. in Finance and Political Science from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, magna cum laude; and her M.B.A. from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France.

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