CORPORATE
Our corporate lawyers represent entities of all forms, domestic and foreign, as well as individuals and not-for-profits. Our clients range from small start-up ventures to large multi-national public and private corporations. All of our team members are seasoned lawyers with many years experience at major international firms. We are proud of our creative and pragmatic skills and our knack for sorting out what really matters, finding the essence of the best way forward, building consensus and guiding our clients to implementation of the chosen solution.

Our corporate attorneys have extensive experience across a broad range of industries, including:

•aviation
•defense
•energy
•financial services
•insurance
•manufacturing , distribution and shipping
•media and entertainment
•pharmaceuticals
•technology and telecommunication
•transport

This diversity enables our team to craft solutions and strategies that are tailored to our clients’ needs and assist them in addressing the risks most relevant to their businesses.

General Corporate and Commercial
We provide a full range of corporate and business services at start-up, during operation, and at the time of dissolution or sale. For new ventures, we assist the client in choosing the appropriate form of entity to best meet the client’s objectives, taking into account tax planning, business risks and financing needs. We prepare and assist in negotiating the organizational documents necessary to complement an effective organization, including shareholder, LLC operating, joint venture, or partnership agreements, and we provide the practical, business-savvy advice that is so often critical to sustaining a successful business operation.

Mergers and Acquisitions
Our corporate lawyers have broad expertise in the field of mergers and acquisitions in the United States and abroad. The types of transactions we regularly handle include:

•asset purchases and sales
•joint ventures
•leveraged buyouts
•mergers and consolidations
•minority investments
•private equity
•reorganizations and restructurings
•sales of control
•stock acquisitions and sales

We work with clients and their financial advisers on strategic and structural issues in the transaction and take a leading role in negotiating, documenting and implementing the transaction.

Corporate Finance and Investments
Our corporate lawyers regularly advise clients in the corporate finance and investment areas. We represent issuers, underwriters and selling security holders in offerings of securities; private equity firms and hedge funds in investment and seeding transactions and financings; and borrowers and lenders in a wide variety of financing transactions, including senior and subordinate lending arrangements, revolving credit facilities and security agreements.

Team Work
Vandenberg & Feliu’s emphasis is on collaboration and team work to assure outstanding and cost-effective client service. As many of the matters our corporate attorneys handle call for additional specialized expertise, our corporate attorneys regularly include colleagues in the firm’s Employment, Intellectual Property, Labor, Real Estate, and Tax Groups as members of the project team.