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Elizabeth Lampert

Elizabeth Lampert

Senior Managing Associate

Elizabeth Lampert

Senior Managing Associate

Lexington

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Elizabeth Lampert is a member of Dentons’ Corporate group, where she focuses her practice on mergers & acquisitions and finance. Elizabeth advises businesses from small, closely held private businesses to large publicly traded companies and is experienced advising on both the sell side and buy side of deals.

Elizabeth represents borrowers and lenders in various financial transactions across a variety of industries, including healthcare, manufacturing and construction. She also advises businesses on other corporate matters including compliance and business organization.

Experience

German American Bancorp, Inc.: Served as lead counsel in Client's merger with Heartland BancCorp, the parent company of Heartland Bank, effective Feb. 1, 2025. Immediately following completion of the holding company transaction, Heartland Bank merged with and into German American's banking subsidiary, German American Bank. Heartland had approximately US$1.9 billion in total assets at the time of the merger.
OrthoPediatrics Corp.: Served as lead counsel for OrthoPediatrics Corp. in a US$100M private financing arrangement with Braidwell LP. The deal closed on August 12, 2024.
INdigital: Served as counsel for INdigital, a leader in developing Next Generation 9-1-1 services throughout the United States, in a definitive agreement through which INdigital was acquired by Novacap, a leading North American private equity firm based in Montreal. The deal closed on July 9, 2024.
Confidential Packaging Client: Served as lead counsel for client, a national lessor of waste compactor and baler equipment, in a deal through which it was acquired by a national compactor rental company. The deal closed on June 14, 2024.
Confidential Private Equity Client: Served as lead counsel for client, a private equity investment group that partners with lower- to middle-market companies, in its investment in a full-service, large-parcel site developer that provides services including excavation, clearing, rock blasting, demolition, paving and utility installation. The deal closed on April 15, 2024.
OrthoPediatrics Corp: Served as counsel in its acquisition of Boston Orthotics & Prosthetics, provider of non-surgical scoliosis treatment options, for an upfront cash payment of $22 million. The transaction was completed effective January 5, 2024.
OrthoPediatrics Corp: Served as lead counsel for OrthoPediatrics in an $80 million Credit, Security and Guarantee Agreement. The transaction was completed effective December 29, 2023.
OFS Brands, Inc. (OFS): Represented an Indiana furniture manufacturer in connection with a $20 million acquisition of the ecommerce furniture company, Room, Inc. This was a cash deal where OFS purchased all the assets from Room in North America. Room, Inc. was represented by the New York office of Fenwick and West. This transaction also involved the early acquisition of the Room.com domain name [a multi-million dollar asset] which was subject to an installment lease contract held by Escrow.com and was skillfully negotiated for early release and a pre-closing payoff based on an IP acquisition arrangement. The transaction closed on August 31, 2023.
Slate Capital Group: Advised client, a private equity investment group located in Baltimore, Cincinnati and Nashville, on its investment in Vertical Mechanical Group, a commercial HVAC and Plumbing contractor based in Sterling, VA. The transaction was completed in May 2023.
Health clinic provider: Provided legal counsel to a community bank in connection with a Health Resources & Services Administration guaranty-backed loan for a Kentucky health clinic provider to convert an existing building into a new medical campus.
German American Bancorp: Served as legal counsel to German American Bancorp Inc. on its announced deal to acquire Citizens Union Bancorp of Shelbyville, Inc. (CUB). The deal is preliminarily valued at $154 million, and the transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2022, subject to approval by regulatory authorities.
Confidential client: Obtained a $1.1 million award on behalf of client in a Dissenters Right Action following an August 2020 bench trial in the Eastern District of Kentucky.

Recognition

Honors and Awards

CALI Award recipient, Litigation Skills, 2019
Order of the Coif

Insights

Co-author, “New Federal Reporting Alert: What to Know About the Corporate Transparency Act,” Executive Women in Finance June 2024 newsletter

Kentucky Cannabis Law Blog Insights

Licensing and regulatory compliance, May 22, 2024

Activities and Affiliations

Young Lawyers Division Member, Fayette County Bar Association
Member, Kentucky Bar Association
- Member, Equine Law Section

Community Involvement and Pro Bono

Planning Committee, Step by Step’s Step into Beautiful Tea, 2022-2024
Lexington Humane Society Foster

Presentations

Presenter, "Overviews and Updates of the Corporate Transparency Act," Jasper Chamber of Commerce, July 2, 2024
Presenter, “Corporate Transparency Act,” Association of Corporate Counsel – Indiana Chapter, January 19, 2024