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Daniel Lange assists companies and executives with their compensation and benefits programs, including employee ownership, equity-based compensation and the benefits and compensation aspects involved in mergers and acquisitions.

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His solutions help clients stay competitive, securing top talent while minimizing risk and ensuring tax-efficient structures. Public and private commercial companies, investment funds, ESOP trustees and employees rely on Daniel to help them navigate the business, regulatory and tax issues surrounding compensation, benefits, employee ownership, and the process of becoming an employee-owned company. His work includes structuring and implementing practical yet creative executive compensation packages, broad-based equity and incentive compensation arrangements, and identifying related compliance and reporting requirements.

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Clients choose Daniel for his perspective, experience working with both employers and executives, understanding of all sides of a transaction, and negotiating skills. He works toward mutually beneficial solutions first determining the critical issues and then addressing them head-on. His clients benefit from the fact that he never loses sight of their end goal and avoids letting minor details derail an otherwise smooth process.

Daniel also counsels buyers, sellers, management and lenders on the benefits, and related tax laws and issues that arise in transactions, such as restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, and transactions involving company stock held by ESOPs. He is experienced in structuring and implementing retirement and welfare benefit programs, including severance, health and disability, addressing their compliance and reporting obligations and guiding plan administration committees on minimizing personal liability in plan oversight.

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Managed negotiation of a $500 million transaction involving the go-forward arrangements for a group of management employees with the buyer while their company was being sold. Sale proceeds for the management team were worth more than $25 million. The process required the management team to work as representatives of the seller for purposes of the sale transaction, while simultaneously negotiating for themselves and the benefit of the post-sale company. The transaction closed successfully and when the company sold again, they were able to cash-in for generational wealth amounts.

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46 Vedder Price Attorneys Recognized in 2024 Best Lawyers® in America

77 Vedder Price Attorneys Recognized in 2025 Best Lawyers® in America

76 Vedder Price Attorneys Recognized in 2026 Best Lawyers® in America

Vedder Price Represents The Edgewater Funds in Turbine Engine Specialists (TES) Investment

Vedder Price Represents Vance Street in Secondary Transaction to Support Continued Growth of Jet Parts Engineering

Vedder Price Represents KP Aviation in its Growth Investment By Bain Capital

Vedder Price Represents LeddarTech in Pending Going-Public Transaction with Prospector Capital Corp.

Vedder Price Represents Deerfield Agency in Its Acquisition of Embedded

Vedder Price Represents L Squared Capital Partners in Strategic Growth Investment in TeachTown

Vedder Price Advises Foundant Technologies, an L Squared Capital Partners Portfolio Company, in Strategic Merger with SmartSimple Software

Vedder Price Advises Castle Harlan in its Investment in Alumni Educational Solutions

Vedder Price Represents Balmoral Funds in its Acquisition of Xirgo Technologies Former Sensata Insights Business Unit

Vedder Price Represents Balmoral Funds in Acquisition of R.H. Sheppard Co. Inc.

Vedder Price Represents Jet Parts Engineering, a Portfolio Company of Vance Street Capital, in its Purchase of Percival Aviation

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Vedder Price Represents Netrio, a Portfolio Company of L Squared Capital Partners, in its Acquisition of Agio

Vedder Price Guides Chicago-Based Promus Holdings in Strategic Sale of Select Business Lines to Waverly Advisors

Vedder Price represents Innovator in $2 Billion acquisition by Goldman Sachs

Vedder Price Represents Merchant Industry in Sale to Lovell Minnick Partners

Vedder Price Advises Exante in Sale to Vanda

Vedder Represents Richard Bernstein Advisors in Acquisition by Janus Henderson Group

Vedder Represents Spartan Aerospace Group in Acquisition of Lourdes Industries, Inc.

Daniel B. Lange

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Vedder Represents Spartan Aerospace Group in Acquisition of Lourdes Industries, Inc.

Vedder Represents Richard Bernstein Advisors in Acquisition by Janus Henderson Group

Vedder Price Advises Exante in Sale to Vanda

Vedder Price Guides Chicago-Based Promus Holdings in Strategic Sale of Select Business Lines to Waverly Advisors

Vedder Price represents Innovator in $2 Billion acquisition by Goldman Sachs

Vedder Price Represents Merchant Industry in Sale to Lovell Minnick Partners

76 Vedder Price Attorneys Recognized in 2026 Best Lawyers® in America

Vedder Price Represents Netrio, a Portfolio Company of L Squared Capital Partners, in its Acquisition of Agio

Daniel B. Lange

Credentials

Education

Bar Admissions

Affiliations

Recognition

Insights & Events

Vedder Represents Spartan Aerospace Group in Acquisition of Lourdes Industries, Inc.

Vedder Represents Richard Bernstein Advisors in Acquisition by Janus Henderson Group

Vedder Price Advises Exante in Sale to Vanda

Vedder Price Guides Chicago-Based Promus Holdings in Strategic Sale of Select Business Lines to Waverly Advisors

Vedder Price represents Innovator in $2 Billion acquisition by Goldman Sachs

Vedder Price Represents Merchant Industry in Sale to Lovell Minnick Partners

76 Vedder Price Attorneys Recognized in 2026 Best Lawyers® in America

Vedder Price Represents Netrio, a Portfolio Company of L Squared Capital Partners, in its Acquisition of Agio

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