Harvard to Houston: V&E’s Dealmaker Powerhouse

Lande Spottswood is one of the country’s top dealmakers, hired by public companies and private capital alike for her expertise with complex transactions. Coming up on nearly two decades into her career at Vinson & Elkins, she continues to lead marquee deals that shape the market.​

Her path to the transactional world wasn’t linear. A onetime biochemical sciences major planning for an MD/PhD, Spottswood realized lab life was not for her and pivoted to Harvard Law School, where a course on Delaware takeover doctrine (and the drama of corporate raiders and contested deals) hooked her on M&A. She gravitated early toward transactions, took a deep dive into business and accounting courses, and then she sought out high-impact deal work once she arrived at V&E.​