About
Steven Schaffer is a partner in the Corporate and Finance Transactions group at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, based in the United States. His practice focuses on transactions involving employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), including representation of companies, lenders, trustees, sellers, and valuation firms. He also designs employee stock ownership, pension, profit sharing, and employee benefit plans, and handles plan administration, audits, and Department of Labor investigations. Schaffer negotiates employment arrangements and equity incentives for executives, and advises on employee benefit and executive compensation issues in mergers and acquisitions and leveraged buyouts. His additional areas of concentration include tax planning and corporate transactions.