A. Lee Lundy, Jr.

Mr. Lundy is Chair of the firm's Corporate, Business and Tax Department.  He has helped clients plan and execute business, financial, and personal strategies for over 30 years, covering all aspects of establishing, financing, operating, buying, and selling businesses.  He focuses on practical business and tax effects of relationships, structures, transactions, and operations, including partnership issues and secured transactions.  He represents businesses in manufacturing, services, high technology, finance and banking, construction, communications, retail, wholesale distribution, engineering, insurance, health care, and real estate.  His clients have included American companies doing business abroad and European, Asian, African, Canadian, and Latin American companies doing business in the U.S.

Mr. Lundy has handled matters that include:

• over 100 mergers and acquisitions in the United States and abroad
• tax and business planning for the U.S. business activities of foreign companies
• multi-state, multi-level, tax efficient structures for the health care industry
• capital, compensation, and intellectual property structures for high technology startups
• complex financial instruments development and financial services offerings
• secured financings and securitizing of real estate and other asset-backed loans
• tax planning for off-shore activities of U.S. taxpayers
• creating partnership and other tax-efficient business entities for many industries
• developing corporate crisis management plans to prepare for and manage environmental, products liability and tampering, and other catastrophic occurrences

Utilizing his varied background, Mr. Lundy also acts as outside general counsel to some companies, advising on legal issues in many areas.  Prior to joining Tydings & Rosenberg LLP, he was Vice President and General Counsel of Campbell Soup Company, heading its legal function for 11 years.  He also practiced law with a multi-national law firm for 10 years in New York, Washington, D.C., and London, England.

He has taught at seminars in Belgium, England, and France on doing business in the U.S. and in the U.S. on advertising regulation, employment law, and mergers and acquisitions.   In addition to his speaking engagements on corporate and tax law, Mr. Lundy was the Chairman of MERITAS Law Firms Worldwide (2005-07).

• Lundy Appointed Chairman of Meritas