Madeline McElhanon Vaughan is an associate in the Finance & Commercial Transactions Practice Group where she advises banking and other corporate clients on transactional, tax, securities and regulatory matters.

Madeline assists clients on a variety of corporate and commercial finance needs and helps create strategies to effectively safeguard their interests.

Before joining the firm, Madeline earned her Master of Laws in Taxation from the University of Florida Levin College of Law. She graduated from the University of Georgia School of Law in 2019 and earned a degree in political science from the University of Arkansas in 2016.

• University of Florida Levin College of Law, LL.M in Taxation, 2020
• University of Georgia School of Law, J.D., 2019
  • Negotiation Competition Team, Recruitment Chair
• University of Arkansas, B.A., Political Science, 2016

• Finalist, ABA Regional Negotiation Competition 2017
• Received Top Negotiator Award, 2L Intramural Negotiation Competition, 2017
• Second Place, Duke Law Transactional Competition, 2019 

• Arkansas