Steven Tonsfeldt is Co-Chair of Heller Ehrman's Corporate / VLG Practice Group and Chair of the firm's Mergers and Acquisitions practice.

Experience

Mr. Tonsfeldt's practice focuses primarily on the representation of publicly traded and privately held companies in both domestic and cross-border merger and acquisition transactions, leveraged buyout transactions, significant recapitalizations, corporate partnering arrangements, the formation of joint ventures and other strategic alliances, minority equity investments, and other similar transactions. He has also represented investment partnerships in various forms of leveraged acquisitions as well as financial advisors who are advising companies engaged in acquisition transactions.

Over the past several years, Mr. Tonsfeldt has led lawyer teams in acquisition transactions having an aggregate value in excess of $100 billion. During the course of this work, Mr. Tonsfeldt has represented a number of corporate clients in acquisition transactions involving some of the world's most active buyers, including transactions with Yahoo!, Cisco Systems, Microsoft, IBM, Alcatel, Intel, Oracle, Qualcomm, Nokia, Merck and Time Warner.

Prior to law school, Mr. Tonsfeldt worked as a certified public accountant with Deloitte Haskins & Sells. He also taught accounting at U. C. Berkeley’s Haas School of Business as a graduate student instructor.