Elaina Johnson

elaina.johnson@lw.com

+1.713.546.7536

Profile

Elaina Johnson is an associate in the Houston office of Latham & Watkins.

Elaina counsels companies and private equity funds on a variety of strategic corporate matters, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and preferred equity investments.

While attending law school at the University of Texas School of Law, Elaina served as a staff editor for the Texas Journal of Oil Gas and Energy Law (TJOGEL).

Prior to attending law school, Elaina earned a BS in Arts and Entertainment Technologies from the University of Texas in 2020.

Experience

Elaina’s experience includes advising:

Coastal Waste & Recycling, Inc. in its acquisition of Southwest Waste, a leading independent waste-hauling and recycling company on Florida’s west coast*
U.S. Energy Development Corporation in connection with its reserve based lending facility in connection with USEDC’s acquisition of approximately 20,000 net acres in Reeves and Ward Counties, Texas, the largest acquisition in USEDC’s history*
A Canadian pension fund in the acquisition of interests in Sweetwater Royalties, a private industrial minerals royalty company, owning mineral estate in Wyoming containing trona resources*
A fund managed by Macquarie Asset Management in its agreement to acquire a 40% equity interest in Diamond Infrastructure Solutions (Diamond) from Dow Inc. for approximately US$2.4 billion. Diamond provides specialist infrastructure services to Dow and other industrial customers at five Dow manufacturing sites in Texas and Louisiana*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham

Qualifications

Bar Qualification

Texas

Education

JD, University of Texas School of Law, 2023
Staff Editor, Texas Journal of Oil, Gas, and Energy Law
BS in Arts & Entertainment Technologies, University of Texas at Austin, 2020
with honors

Languages Spoken

English

Practices

Mergers & Acquisitions