Profile
Elizabeth Hartman is a partner in the M&A practice at Argue, Points & Tally. She advises companies, founders, investors, and management teams on acquisitions, dispositions, strategic transactions, and related corporate matters.
Ms. Hartman’s practice focuses on disciplined transaction execution, practical risk assessment, negotiation strategy, and the coordination required to move complex deals from initial planning through closing.
Within AP&T, she also contributes to attorney development and hiring matters involving the M&A practice, with particular attention to judgment, responsiveness, drafting discipline, and the ability to manage multiple transaction workstreams.
Representative Experience
- Advises buyers, sellers, founders, and investors in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and strategic transactions.
- Coordinates transaction diligence, documentation, negotiation, signing, and closing processes across legal and business teams.
- Counsels clients on deal structure, transaction risk, governance considerations, and post-closing obligations.
- Supervises attorneys working on transaction documents, diligence, client communication, and deal-management responsibilities.
Practice Perspective
Ms. Hartman emphasizes that strong transaction practice requires both technical precision and disciplined execution. Attorneys must understand the structure of the deal, identify the issues that matter, communicate clearly, and maintain control of the transaction process.
“A transaction is not managed by documents alone. It is managed by judgment, preparation, and control of the process.”— Elizabeth Hartman
Attorney Development
Elizabeth works with associates on transaction structure, diligence, drafting, negotiation preparation, client communication, and deal execution.
She expects developing attorneys to become increasingly responsible for identifying issues, coordinating workstreams, communicating status clearly, and understanding how individual tasks affect the broader transaction.
AP&T Employment Role
Within the AP&T Managed Employer Verolex demonstration, Elizabeth may provide M&A practice context, role expectations, position criteria, interview participation, substantive evaluation, and hiring input where those functions are assigned within the applicable workflow.
Her partnership status does not independently establish candidate-advancement authority, verification authority, offer authority, disclosure authority, publication authority, or final authorization. Those functions remain governed separately.