Lawyers in United States

Stephen V. Barr

Steve Barr is counsel in the Finance Department. He regularly represents leading commercial and investment banks in the syndicated loan markets. Steve's primary practice involves the structuring and syndication of senior credit facilities, including acquisition, recapitalization, bridge, working capital and other domestic, cross-border and multicurrency financings. His clients include several global financial institutions.

Latham & Watkins

Stephen VanDerhoef

Senior Litigation Partner

Cairncross & Hempelmann

Stephen Vaughn

Partner

King & Spalding

Stephen W. Ranere

Stephen Ranere represents technology and life sciences companies, from startup through IPO and beyond. Steve also advises venture capital and private equity firms involved in the technology, life sciences, and other growth industries. Steve leverages extensive experience to help clients in a broad range of sectors — including fintech, climate tech, digital health, and AI-enabled drug discovery — navigate: Early-stage formation and strategy Venture capital and growth equity financings Mergers and acquisitions Public offerings of securities Public company representation Corporate governance matters He marshals the resources across Latham’s robust global platform to craft solutions for clients at any stage of corporate development. A recognized leader within the firm, Steve serves on the Digital Health Task Force and was previously on the firm’s Associates Committee. He maintains an active pro bono practice, including participating in legal workshops for small-business owners in underserved communities.

Latham & Watkins

Stephen Warnke

Ropes & Gray LLP

Stephen Weissman

Steve Weissman, the Global Co-Chair of the firm's Antitrust and Competition practice, has almost two decades of practice representing clients in high-stakes transactional matters, criminal cartel investigations and civil litigation before the DOJ and FTC. Steve has litigated a substantial number of cases on behalf of both defendants and plaintiffs, including claims under the Sherman, Clayton and Robinson-Patman Acts, as well as breach of contract and business tort claims. He regularly counsel clients on issues pertaining to joint ventures and distribution agreements, and other antitrust compliance matters.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Stephen Wilson

Partner

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Stephen Wink

Stephen Wink, Global Co-Chair of Latham’s Fintech Industry Group, advises fintech companies, investment banks, exchanges, trading platforms (traditional and cryptocurrency), private funds, and other financial institutions on matters involving the regulation of markets, as well as related compliance and enforcement matters. Widely regarded as one of the preeminent lawyers advising on fintech, digital assets and broker-dealer regulations, Stephen leverages in-depth knowledge and broad experience to advise clients on the overlapping patchwork of regulations covering the securities markets. He provides regular commentary on regulatory initiatives and rule-making proposals on behalf of clients and trade associations. He has frequently obtained no-action relief and interpretive guidance on behalf of clients from the Securities and Exchange Commission and FINRA. Stephen frequently develops market-leading resources, including the US Crypto Policy Tracker, to help investors, innovators, and market participants stay updated with legislative and regulatory developments in rapidly evolving areas, including blockchain, cryptocurrency, and digital assets. He recently concluded his tenure as Chair of the ABA’s subcommittee on Trading and Markets, and frequently speaks and writes about fintech, crypto, and securities regulatory topics. Stephen spent nine years in-house as executive managing director and general counsel of First Albany Companies Inc., a full-service investment bank, merchant bank, investment advisor, and listed company. He began his career at another leading law firm after serving as a law clerk to Judge George E. MacKinnon of the US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

Latham & Watkins

Stephen Wolpert

Counsel

Dechert

Stephen Wu

Stephen Wu has nearly twenty-five years’ experience in defending antitrust litigation in federal courts around the country, defending mergers and acquisitions before the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division and State Attorneys General and counseling clients on antitrust compliance issues. Stephen has successfully defended clients in class actions and other litigation brought by purchasers, competitors, and employees alleging unlawful conspiracy, price-fixing, wage-fixing, exclusive dealing, group boycott, market allocation, monopolization and tying claims. In addition, Stephen has successfully defended numerous mergers and acquisitions from federal and state antitrust reviews. Stephen also regularly counsels clients on pricing and distribution and joint venture matters. He represents clients in a wide variety of industries, ranging from consumer goods to healthcare to packaging. Stephen is co-head of the Firm’s Health Antitrust Practice Group. Stephen has been recognized as a leading antitrust lawyer by The Best Lawyers in America, BTI Consulting, Chambers USA, Global Competition Review, Lawyers of Color, The Legal 500 USA, LMG Life Sciences, The National Law Journal and Super Lawyers. Prior to joining the Firm, Stephen was an attorney for the FTC, where he received its Award for Meritorious Service. At the Firm, Stephen received McDermott’s Pro Bono and Community Service Award in 2010 for his pro bono efforts.

McDermott Will & Schulte

Stephen Younger

Senior Counsel

Withers

Stephen Zide

Stephen D. Zide represents a diverse range of clients in Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases and out-of-court restructuring matters. Stephen has been involved in many high-profile restructurings and has experience across a number of industries. His clients include both official and ad hoc creditor and equity committees, debtors, bondholders, investors and secured lenders.

Dechert

Stephenie Gosnell Handler

Stephenie Gosnell Handler is a partner in Gibson Dunn’s Washington, D.C. office, where she is a member of the International Trade and Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Data Innovation practices. She advises clients on complex legal, regulatory, and compliance issues relating to international trade, cybersecurity, and technology matters. Stephenie ’s legal advice is deeply informed by her operational cybersecurity and in-house legal experience at McKinsey & Company, and also by her active duty service in the U.S. Marine Corps.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Stephenie Yeung

Principal

Offit Kurman

Sterling Marchand

Partner

Baker Botts L.L.P.

Steve Abrams

Global Co-Head of Life Sciences & Health Care industry sector group

Hogan Lovells US LLP

Steve Bigler

Director at Richards, Layton & Finger, Steve Bigler provides counsel on all aspects of Delaware corporate law matters in the full range of corporate transactions, including statutory compliance, structuring, fiduciary duty, and governance. His clients include private and public corporations of all sizes and stages and their founders, boards of directors, board committees, and venture capital and private equity firms, as well as the prominent law firms that counsel them. Steve has considerable experience analyzing and drafting preferred stock terms, merger and investment agreement terms, and other corporate documents governed by Delaware law. He had a lead role in drafting provisions implementing a number of innovative changes to the Delaware General Corporation Law, including: Sections 204 and 205, permitting ratification of defective corporate acts (adopted in 2013) Section 122(17), permitting advance waivers of corporate opportunities (adopted in 2000) Section 251(g), permitting holding company reorganizations without a stockholder vote (adopted in 1995) Steve was one of the original group of venture capital lawyers who drafted the NVCA model venture financing documents, and he currently serves on the National Venture Capital Association GC Advisory Board and participates in updating those documents annually. While a member of the ABA Corporate Laws Committee, Steve was involved in drafting several additions to the MBCA, including provisions adding a statutory ratification procedure and provisions permitting the formation of public benefit corporations. He was also involved in drafting several new sections of the 7th edition of the Corporate Directors Guidebook. Steve served as president of Richards Layton from 2008-2011. He was a member of the ABA Corporate Laws Committee from 2014-2020 and is currently a member of the Tri-bar Legal Opinion Committee. Steve is a frequent speaker on DGCL developments and practice issues. PRACTICES Legal Opinions Transactional Committees Corporate Transactions Corporate Governance Mergers & Acquisitions

Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A.

Steve Blevit

A pioneer in the single-family-rental structured finance asset class, Steve provides counsel to a wide variety of clients, assisting them with structuring, negotiating, and documenting debt and equity transactions. A leading lawyer in the single-family residential housing industry, Steve has handled more than $100 billion of transactions involving single-family homes, including term and warehouse financings, single and multiborrower securitizations, joint ventures, investment funds, and mergers and acquisitions. Steve’s clients include Wall Street banks, special opportunities hedge funds, private market lenders, private equity funds, debt funds, and public and privately held companies. Steve is known for his ability to handle a wide variety of novel transactions involving the financing of single-family homes. He developed the financing and securitization documentation that is widely used at all levels of single-family rental finance today. Steve also structured and handled the novel Zillow 2021-1 and 2021-2 securitizations.

Alston & Bird LLP

Steve Camahort

Steve Camahort is a partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity practices. He is also the co-chair of the firm’s San Francisco office. Steve has extensive experience in M&A and related corporate governance issues. He has worked for corporate clients, private equity funds and financial advisors in negotiated and hostile transactions, with a particular emphasis on the technology and life science sectors.

Paul Hastings LLP

Steve Dixon

Partner

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Steve Ellis

Senior Counsel

Platt Richmond

Steve Epstein

Steve Epstein is the managing partner of the firm and a member of the firm’s Governance Committee. He maintains an active corporate practice and serves as a trusted advisor to some of the country’s leading companies across a broad range of industry sectors. As co-head of our M&A and Private Equity Practice, Steve counsels public and private companies, financial sponsors and investment banking firms in a variety of transactional and advisory situations, including acquisitions, divestitures, takeover preparedness and corporate governance matters. Steve brings extensive knowledge and experience from different deal-making perspectives, having advised clients both as an attorney and, previously, as an investment banker at Credit Suisse.

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Steve Evans

Partner - Corporate and Finance Transactions

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Steve Gavin

Winston Taylor