Michele Vaillant offers strategic counseling to business clients on their most sophisticated matters.

Michele Vaillant counsels business entities throughout their various stages of development and negotiates and directs the documentation of a myriad of business and corporate finance transactions. Her representation includes corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, financing transactions, securities matters, commercial transactions and general corporate matters.

Michele’s M&A practice includes the negotiation of mergers, acquisitions and divestitures of both private and public companies. Among Michele’s recent transactions are the representation of a leading data analytics provider in over a dozen acquisitions and divestitures ranging in price from under $100 million to over $800 million, representation of the largest swimming pool manufacturer worldwide in a series of acquisitions and divestitures of entities in the U.S., Australia, Canada, France and Spain having a wide range of values, representation of Stewardship Financial Corporation, a New Jersey community bank, in its merger with Columbia Financial, Inc. valued at approximately $135 million, and the sale of the largest independent U.S. beauty products distributor, to L’Or√©al Group.