Valerie Casey is a transactional and corporate lawyer, with substantial experience in general corporate matters and transactions for both privately and publicly held business entities. She is experienced in advising clients in a broad range of general corporate needs, including corporate governance matters, fiduciary obligations, executive compensation, stock option plans, stockholder agreements, and organic corporate and recapitalization transactions. Ms. Casey's transactional practice includes extensive merger and acquisition experience involving all forms of business combinations, including asset and stock purchases, joint ventures, and leveraged buy-outs, for both privately and publicly held domestic and international clients, and related acquisition financing. She is likewise experienced in all forms of divestitures, including asset and stock sales, dissolutions of joint ventures and subsidiary spin-offs. Her transactional experience has spanned a variety of industries, including manufacturing, distributorship, retail, and financial services businesses.Ms. Casey's experience in the capital markets includes representing issuers (both domestic and international) and underwriters in initial public offerings and other equity or debt public offerings and private placements, as well advising clients in the preparation of periodic reports, proxy statements and other documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to federal securities laws.