Lawyers in United States

Stephanie Wagner

Partner

Mayer Brown

Stephen A. Broome

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP

Stephen A. Opler

Partner

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Stephen Alicanti

Partner; Member of DLA Piper's Policy Committee; Chair of DLA Piper's New York Corporate Practice

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Stephen Amdur

Stephen Amdur has extensive experience in high-profile, multibillion-dollar mergers and acquisitions. Referred to as “one of the great counselors to the world of corporate America and business” by DealBook founder Andrew Ross Sorkin, Stephen provides comprehensive legal advice to public and private companies, private equity and venture capital funds, among many others. He has experience advising clients in a variety of industries, including technology, financial services, healthcare, telecoms, media and entertainment, sports, consumer and retail, energy and manufacturing. Stephen advises on all types of mergers and acquisitions, public and private financings, tender offers and joint ventures and skillfully navigates complex transactions that involve U.S. and foreign companies.

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Stephen Baskin

Partner

King & Spalding

Stephen Benesh

A seasoned business litigator in his 32nd year of practice at Bracewell, Steve Benesh brings his experience and judgment to bear in helping his clients reach the best resolution of their issues, whether that means vigorously protecting those interests in the courtroom or working collaboratively to reach a common-sense resolution outside the courtroom. He has represented clients in diverse matters, including securities, class action, business torts, fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, deceptive trade practices, breach of contract, and products liability. Steve has first chair jury and non-jury trial experience representing plaintiffs and defendants in state and federal courts, as well as arbitration and mediation experience.

Bracewell LLP

Stephen Best

Partner

Brown Rudnick LLP

Stephen Blake

Steve Blake is a Litigation Partner in our San Francisco office. focuses on high-stakes shareholder litigation and securities regulatory matters. Steve regularly advises corporations, financial institutions, funds and their advisors in connection with mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, legal compliance and commercial disputes. Steve also regularly represents entities and individuals before the SEC, FINRA and stock exchanges. Steve frequently writes and lectures on shareholder litigation, fiduciary duties and issues under the Securities Act, Exchange Act, Investment Company Act and Investment Advisors Act. Steve is the author of the quarterly “Stock Block” column in The Recorder. His recent columns “Along Came SPACs, and Then SPAC Litigation,” “Challenges to Corporate Decision-Making in the Face of Increasingly Polarized Responses to ESG Initiatives,” and “Burgeoning ‘Caremark’ Claims Likely to Drive Stockholder Demands” have been widely read. Steve is Co-Head of the Firm’s Asia Litigation Practice and is also Co-Chair of the Firm’s Knowledge & Innovation Committee. Recognized as a 2021 Law360 “Rising Star” in Securities, Steve is also recognized by Euromoney’s Benchmark Litigation as a “Litigation Star,” and was a repeat honoree on their “40 & Under List.” Steve was named among the Daily Journal’s “Leading Commercial Litigators” for 2024 and 2026. He was selected as part of Bloomberg Law’s “40 Under 40” in 2022, and by the Daily Journal as one of the “Top 40 Under 40” lawyers in California in 2018. Steve is recognized by Chambers USA in Securities Litigation, by The Legal 500 in both M&A Litigation and Securities Litigation, and as a “Rising Star” in Northern California securities litigation by Super Lawyers.

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Stephen Boyko

With almost 30 years of experience, Steve has been at the forefront of legal developments in the private credit industry, including the creation of new products, the migration of products to other jurisdictions, and the formation of joint ventures between banks and credit funds. As the co-founder of the Private Credit group and the immediate past co-chair of the Corporate Department, Steve often acts for clients in complex, interdisciplinary, and one-of-a-kind transactions. Steve represents one of the largest client rosters in the industry, including an array of specialty finance companies, private debt funds, business development companies (BDCs), CLOs, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, hedge funds, private equity investors, in regular-way, opportunistic, and restructuring related transactions. Steve actively represents over 50 clients in transactions that have ranged from $5 million to $1 billion. Steve also has extensive capital markets experience, including the representation of issuers and underwriters in offerings of high-yield securities, debentures, medium-term notes, preferred stock, common stock and other structured securities.

Proskauer Rose LLP

Stephen Braga

Stephen Braga chairs the firm’s national Government Enforcement & Investigations practice. He has over 35 years of experience representing individuals and companies in criminal and civil matters before trial and appellate courts throughout the United States.

Bracewell LLP

Stephen Broadus

Partner

Balch & Bingham LLP

Stephen C. Szalkowski

Corporate Associate

Latham & Watkins

Stephen Charkoudian

Partner

Goodwin

Stephen Chuk

Stephen Chuk is a Partner in Proskauer’s Antitrust and Sports Groups, representing clients in their most high-stakes antitrust and competition matters. A trusted advisor to general counsel and senior executives, he regularly defends clients facing criminal and regulatory investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, and state attorneys general. Stephen has defended clients against allegations of price fixing, monopolization, group boycott and bid rigging, managing sophisticated antitrust disputes from inception through trial. In 2023, he was a lead member of the trial team that secured a landmark defense victory for Sanderson Farms, defeating $7 billion in damages claims after a six-week jury trial in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. In addition to his antitrust work, Stephen counsels clients on consumer protection and marketing practices, including false advertising disputes. He has handled precedent-setting matters before the FTC and state attorneys general, giving him valuable insight into the intersection of competition and consumer protection enforcement and enabling him to equip clients with practical, business-focused strategies to manage overlapping risks.

Proskauer Rose LLP

Stephen Cook

Partner

Brown Rudnick LLP

Stephen Cowen

Partner

Jones Day

Stephen Crain

Stephen Crain has spent his career advocating for clients in high-stake and complex commercial disputes in the United States and internationally. Stephen’s practice largely focuses on energy, securities, and construction. His diverse energy practice ranges from oil and gas royalty class actions to power-trading disputes to claims in adversary proceedings. In securities matters, Stephen represents officers, directors, and corporations in class actions and has successfully defeated multiple injunctions sought to prevent mergers. Stephen also represents owners in large-scale construction disputes.

Bracewell LLP

Stephen D. Nordahl

Stephen D. Nordahl is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s New York office and Co-Chair of Gibson Dunn’s Strategic Sourcing and Commercial Transactions Practice Group. His practice focuses on information technology, business process, insurance third party administration and fund administration outsourcing transactions, with a particular focus on complex international transactions. He represent clients on technology related transactions, including joint ventures, strategic alliances, licensing, acquisitions, systems implementations and cloud transactions. He assists clients on a wide range of distribution, supply and manufacturing agreements. His practice also has extensive disputes experience on both services and technology transactions.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Stephen D\'Amore

Winston Taylor

Stephen Daiker

Partner

Harrison LLP

Stephen Demm

Partner

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

Stephen DiBonaventura

Stephen DiBonaventura is chair of the firm's Tax Practice Group and practices in the area of federal and corporate taxation, with a concentration in mergers and acquisitions, dispositions, corporate restructurings and consolidated returns. He has extensive experience in structuring acquisitions, mergers, and spin-off transactions for large public corporations, as well as closely held businesses and subchapter S corporations. He also has extensive experience in the restructuring of financially troubled businesses.

Duane Morris LLP

Stephen Dietrich

Partner

Holland & Knight