Ms. Vaillant is a partner in the Corporate, Securities and Financial Institutions Practice Group. Her practice focuses on commercial and capital transactions, mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances and general corporate matters. Ms. Vaillant has counseled all nature of business entities throughout their various stages of development and has negotiated and directed the documentation of a myriad of business and corporate finance transactions. Ms. Vaillant's M&A practice has involved her in negotiated acquisitions and divestitures of both private and public companies. In other transactional areas, she has been involved in complex corporate collaborations and product and technology licensing, development, manufacturing and distribution arrangements as well as other strategic alliances, in some cases accompanied by equity investments. She has also represented both special purpose acquisition companies and the targets of their business combinations in various SPAC transactions. Her corporate finance experience has included capital raising activities such as private placements, public offerings and PIPE transactions.
Ms. Vaillant has worked extensively with public companies and their senior management in connection with securities matters and compliance issues such as compliance with ongoing periodic and current reporting obligations under the federal securities laws and with the requirements of the various exchanges. She has advised clients with respect to proxy solicitations and conduct of stockholders' meetings, formation of board committees and the preparation of their charters, establishing corporate codes of ethics and various other required company policies and procedures.
Ms. Vaillant also counsels corporate boards, board committees and executive management on a full range of corporate governance matters including compliance issues arising under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, director fiduciary duties and board responsibilities, both generally and in connection with extraordinary corporate transactions, board composition, structure and processes, executive compensation issues and shareholder initiatives.
Ms. Vaillant's clients span various market sectors including life sciences, biotechnology, information technology, construction, retail, healthcare services, risk assessment and management consulting. In addition to her areas of focus, Ms. Vaillant provides general corporate representation to her clients and, working with a multi-disciplinary team of McCarter & English attorneys, she assists clients with labor and employment practices such as compensation matters and employee benefits, protecting and securing intellectual property rights, tax matters and managing risk.
Memberships & Affiliations
New Jersey State Bar Association
New York State Bar Association
News
07/01/2011, Michele F. Vaillant interviewed in The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, "Proxy Season Results And Lessons For Executive Compensation"