Vanessa L. Bailey

Overview

Vanessa is a Member in the Business Department at McDonald Hopkins and part of the firm’s Mergers and Acquisitions team. Her practice and experience includes serving a variety of clients across numerous industries (including, private equity, petroleum, property restoration, franchise, software/IT, construction, and telecommunications) providing proactive support for complex transactions such as international and domestic mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, consolidations, and other business combinations. Vanessa works with clients throughout the transaction process, from beginning to end, including overseeing due diligence, risk management, drafting and negotiating transaction documents, financing, and post-closing integration. Her practice also includes general corporate counseling; strategic business planning; business formation; corporate governance; private debt and equity offerings; commercial loans; and reviewing, drafting, and negotiating a variety of contracts, such as master services agreements, purchase agreements (business and real estate), customer and vendor agreements, non-disclosure agreements, intellectual property license agreements, employment agreements, independent contractor/consultant agreements, and construction and subcontractor agreements.