Valentine Bleicher

Valentine A. Bleicher is an associate in the Chicago office of Mayer Brown and a member of the Corporate & Securities practice. Valentine concentrates her practice on mergers and acquisitions and general corporate counseling. She advises purchasers, sellers and targets on a broad range of domestic and cross-border transactional matters, including public and private mergers, stock and assets acquisitions and divestitures and joint ventures.

She represents a broad range of international and US clients, from publicly held companies to smaller privately owned companies as well as private equity firms in a variety of industries, including the energy, manufacturing and industrial equipment, insurance, medical, real estate and retail industries.

Prior to joining Mayer Brown in 2015, Valentine worked as an associate in the Paris office of a Magic Circle law firm for three years. Valentine serves as co-chair of Mayer Brown Chicago’s Women Forum. Valentine also serves on the board of directors of Association of Sciences Po Alumni, Inc. as the director of the Chicago and Midwest branch, and on the Young Professionals Committee of the French-American Chamber of Commerce of Chicago.

Education :

• Université Paris X Nanterre, JD, magna cum laude
• Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), MA
• New York University School of Law, LLM

Admissions :

• New York
• Paris
• Not admitted in Illinois. Practicing under the supervision of firm principals.