FERNANDO VELEZ, JR.

fvelez@rppmh.com

Fernando Velez, Jr. specializes in corporate, business and real estate law.  His experience ranges from representing individuals, small businesses to representing large publicly-traded corporations in many diverse industries, with an emphasis on securities, venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, business start-ups and real estate syndications.

Prior to joining Reicker, Pfau, Pyle & McRoy, Fernando practiced at Rogers, Sheffield & Campbell and prior to that was corporate counsel and corporate secretary for Fidelity National Financial (NYSE: FNF), and its two majority-owned public subsidiaries, Fidelity National Information Solutions (Nasdaq: FNIS) and American National Financial (Nasdaq: ANFI), where he was responsible for all securities matters, mergers and acquisitions, and legal compliance for hundreds of subsidiaries in all fifty states.  

Fernando has structured, negotiated, and closed a variety of transactions from both buy-side and sell-side, including public securities offerings, public debt offerings, tender offers, distressed company acquisitions and sales, going private transactions, and other transactions ranging from small commercial lease arrangements to billion dollar acquisitions.  He has extensive experience with private offerings of securities, including private placements with venture firms, angel investors, and strategic partners. He also assists clients with their day to day legal issues, including choice of entity selection, capitalization, employee issues, real property matters, financing, and strategic arrangements.

Fernando attended the University of California at Berkeley and graduated with a B.A. in 1991.  He studied law at the University of Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) and received his J.D. in 1994 and was admitted into the California Bar.

Fernando is an active member of the Santa Barbara community, and currently serves on the boards of directors of Santa Barbara Region Chamber of Commerce, the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara, and Zona Seca, Inc.