Vedder Price PC

Executive Compensation & Employee Benefits

Vedder Price has built one of the nation’s most respected practices in the Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits fields. We offer unsurpassed depth and breadth of experience and exceptional, personalized client service. We focus on providing practical, strategic solutions to addressing legal and compliance issues in complex specialty areas.

Finance & Transactions

Our clients include a vast array of private equity funds, venture capital funds, emerging enterprises, private equity-backed businesses, family-held companies, multibillion-dollar, multinational organizations and strategic investors. You can expect top-flight capabilities and credentials. Our approach to your deals is anything but transactional. Hundreds of relationships with marquee clients have endured thanks to our business sensibility and keen sense of what matters most to clients. We know your industry, dig deep to understand your business goals and work hard to deliver success as you define it.

Financial Institutions

The Financial Institutions Group of Vedder Price is a premier national banking law group representing banks and other providers of financial services in a broad spectrum of matters. The group has one of the nation’s largest legal practices focusing on the corporate and regulatory representation of financial institutions. The Financial Institutions Group includes former senior legal officials from the OCC, SEC, FINRA and the U.S. Department of Justice. We are deeply involved in representing our financial institution clients in multiple facets of their businesses

Global Transportation Finance

Our Global Transportation Finance team’s reputation begins with its worldwide prominence in aviation finance. However, our practice extends well beyond commercial aviation, and we are considered industry leaders in many other types of transportation financing, including business aviation, railcar, maritime and other transportation assets, healthcare, energy, computer software/hardware and manufacturing/construction equipment. Furthermore, the scope of our transportation finance practice often includes related practice areas such as asset securitization and capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, aviation regulation and structured project finance.

Government Contracts

Vedder Price offers a full-service government contracts practice, supporting clients in all aspects of contracting with U.S. federal and state agencies, as well as international governmental agencies. Our attorneys have proven track records at the Government Accountability Office (GAO), in federal courts and at various boards of contract appeals. Moreover, we have the depth of experience and knowledge to support your company in matters such as high-stakes and complicated bid protests, claim preparation and litigation, internal investigations, suspension and debarment matters and False Claims Act (FCA) actions brought directly by the Unites States or through a qui-tam relator.

Government Investigations & White Collar Defense

Government investigations and enforcement matters are challenging, high-stakes proceedings that often involve substantial financial and reputational risk and business disruption. The sophisticated counsel at Vedder Price bring the experience and skill necessary to develop and implement a successful defense strategy, along with maximum credibility when interacting with government agencies. Vedder Price's government enforcement attorneys have a long, successful track record of minimizing financial and reputational damage from government investigations, and, oftentimes, avoiding charges altogether.

Insolvency, Bankruptcy & Corporate Reorganization

The Corporate Reorganization, Bankruptcy and Insolvency practice at Vedder Price provides a full range of legal services to its client base of regional, national and international institutional lenders, investment bankers, banks, funds, other financiers and mid-sized and large corporations in all industries, including transportation and equipment finance, manufacturing, automotive, leasing and services. Our practice combines the experience of multiple disciplines within the firm, including commercial finance, banking, equipment and project finance, litigation, securities, tax, asset securitization and real estate, blending bankruptcy specialists, transactional attorneys and experienced litigators who work together to analyze the transaction, propose a resolution and implement the solution, whether it be through negotiation or litigation.

Intellectual Property

Vedder Price’s intellectual property practice is directed in the development, protection and exploitation of intellectual property assets for its clients, and also at effectively enforcing such rights and defending its clients in courts throughout the country and before federal agencies, such as the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the U.S. International Trade Commission, when necessary.

Investment Services

Vedder Price attorneys provide a full range of services to a diverse financial services clientele. Attorneys practicing in the firm’s Investment Services group are experienced in all aspects of federal and state investment company and investment adviser securities regulations, broker-dealer regulatory and compliance matters, derivatives and financial product matters, ERISA and tax matters, investment services litigation and issues related to government enforcement and special investigations. Clients include fund complexes, money managers, broker-dealers, independent directors and many other types of institutions such as banks, pension plan sponsors, insurance companies and investment limited partnerships.

Labor & Employment

Vedder Price is acknowledged as a premier labor and employment law firm. Clients of this practice include large corporations, smaller professional and business corporations, multi-employer trust funds, investment managers and other plan fiduciaries in matters involving arbitration, collective bargaining, employment discrimination, equal employment opportunity, NLRB proceedings, occupational safety and health law and wrongful discharge cases.

Litigation & Arbitration

Vedder Price attorneys counsel and represent a diverse set of commercial, organizational, and individual clients across numerous industries in every phase of potential and actual litigation and arbitration, on both the plaintiff/claimant and defense/respondent side. While our first objective, where possible, is avoidance of litigation, we have an experienced team of attorneys in each of our offices with substantial experience handling the prosecution and defense of every type of commercial claim, whether contractual, statutory, tort-based, or otherwise. We have particular expertise representing clients in disputes involving commercial contracts, including supply, distribution, and licensing agreements. We also regularly represent clients in disputes concerning unfair competition, such as false advertising, contract and business expectancy interference, and commercial disparagement.