Practice Expertise
- Capital Markets and Securities
- Energy
- Energy and Infrastructure
- Corporate
Areas of Practice
- Capital Markets and Securities
- Corporate
- Energy
- Energy and Infrastructure
- Energy Regulation
- Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)
- FERC, NERC and State Energy Regulation
- LIBOR Transition
- Power and Energy Capital Markets
- Power and Utilities Capital Markets
- Public Finance
- Regulated Markets and Energy Infrastructure
- Sustainability and Corporate Clean Power
- Sustainability and ESG View More
Profile
Steven represents issuers and underwriters in a range of equity and debt offerings, with a significant portion of this work concentrated in the energy and utility industries. He has substantial experience with common stock offerings, hybrid securities, tax-exempt offerings of multi-modal debt, 4(2) private placements and liability management. Steven also regularly advises on matters relating to general securities law compliance and disclosure, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, Dodd-Frank and corporate governance.
Relevant Experience
Equity:
- Acted as underwriters’ counsel for common stock offering by Ohio-based utility holding company
- Acted as company counsel to Farm Credit financial institution in offerings of perpetual preferred stock
- Acted as underwriters’ counsel for Minnesota-based electric utility holding company in forward-equity issuance
- Acted as agents’ counsel in establishment of periodic equity programs for utility holding company
Debt:
- Acted as underwriters’ counsel in numerous private activity bond offerings and remarketings
- Acted as underwriters’ counsel in debt offering by California-based water utility
- Acted as company counsel and purchasers’ counsel in 4(2) private placements of debt to financial institutions
Liability Management:
- Acted as company counsel to restaurant holding company in waterfall tender offer
- Acted as company counsel to Farm Credit financial institution in Dutch auction tender for subordinated debt
- Acted as initial purchasers’/dealer-managers’ counsel in 144A offering by Texas-based natural gas distribution company and the subsequent private exchange offer for a series of the company's outstanding debt
- Acted as dealer manager counsel in first-ever corporate Dutch auction debt-for-debt exchange
Bar Admissions
- New York
Education
BA, Johns Hopkins University, Phi Beta Kappa, 1998
Areas of Practice
- Capital Markets and Securities
- Corporate
- Energy
- Energy and Infrastructure
- Energy Regulation
- Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)
- FERC, NERC and State Energy Regulation
- LIBOR Transition
- Power and Energy Capital Markets
- Power and Utilities Capital Markets
- Public Finance
- Regulated Markets and Energy Infrastructure
- Sustainability and Corporate Clean Power
- Sustainability and ESG
Professional Career
Equity:
- Acted as underwriters' counsel for common stock offering by Ohio-based utility holding company
- Acted as underwriters' counsel for Minnesota-based electric utility holding company in forward-equity issuance
- Acted as company counsel to financial institution in offerings of perpetual preferred stock
- Acted as agents' counsel in establishment of periodic equity programs for utility holding company
Debt:
- Acted as underwriters' counsel in numerous private activity bond offerings and remarketings
- Acted as underwriters' counsel in debt offering by California-based water utility
- Acted as company counsel and purchasers’ counsel in 4(2) private placements of debt to financial institutions
Liability Management:
- Acted as initial purchasers'/dealer-managers' counsel in 144A offering by Texas-based natural gas distribution company and the subsequent private exchange offer for a series of the company's outstanding debt
- Acted as initial purchasers'/dealer-managers' counsel in 144A offering by Texas-based electric distribution company and the subsequent private exchange offer for two series of the company's outstanding debt
- Acted as dealer manager counsel in first-ever corporate Dutch auction debt-for-debt exchange
Professional Associations
- Member, American Bar Association
- Member, American Bar Association, Section of Public Utility, Communications and Transportation Law
Professional Activities and Experience
- Named "Deal Maker of the Year", Finance Monthly, 2012
Articles
- Errors In Previously Issued Financials? A ‘Big P’ Problem, Law360
- BASELOAD: Current Topics in the Power and Energy Capital Markets
- BASELOAD: Current Topics in the Power and Energy Capital Markets
- BASELOAD: Current Topics in the Power and Energy Capital Markets
- Finance, Mergers, and Acquisitions, in Recent Developments in Infrastructure and Regulated Industries, ABA
- BASELOAD: Current Topics in the Power and Utilities Capital Markets
- BASELOAD: Current Topics in the Power and Utilities Capital Markets
- BASELOAD: Current Topics in the Power and Energy Capital Markets
- BASELOAD: Current Topics in the Power and Energy Capital Markets
- BASELOAD: Current Topics in the Power and Utilities Capital Markets
- BASELOAD: Current Topics in the Power and Utilities Capital Markets
- BASELOAD: Current Topics in the Power and Utilities Capital Markets
- High-Cost Debt Refinance — Is Everybody Going Dutch?, Law360
- Recent Developments in Public Utility, Communications and Transportation Industries, Section of Infrastructure and Regulated Industries Law, ABA
- Developments in Recent Utility Equity Offerings
- BASELOAD: Current Topics in the Power and Utilities Capital Markets
- BASELOAD: Current Topics in the Power and Energy Capital Markets
- BASELOAD: Current Topics in the Power and Utilities Capital Markets
- Finance, Mergers, and Acquisitions, in Recent Developments in Infrastructure and Regulated Industries, ABA
- Electronic Roadshows: What To Leave In, What To Leave Out, Law360
- BASELOAD: Current Topics in the Power and Energy Capital Markets
- BASELOAD: Current Topics in the Power and Utilities Capital Markets
- Recent Financing Trend:144A Coupled With Subsequent Exchange Offer
- BASELOAD: Current Topics in the Power and Utilities Capital Markets
- BASELOAD: Current Topics in the Power and Utilities Capital Markets
- BASELOAD: Current Topics in the Power and Utilities Capital Markets
- BASELOAD: Current Topics in the Power and Utilities Capital Markets
- BASELOAD: Current Topics in the Power and Energy Capital Markets
- BASELOAD: Current Topics in the Power and Energy Capital Markets
- BASELOAD: Current Topics in the Power and Energy Capital Markets
- BASELOAD: Current Topics in Energy Capital Markets
- BASELOAD: Current Topics in Energy Capital Markets
- BASELOAD: Current Topics in the Power and Utilities Capital Markets
- Equity Units in the Utility Capital Markets: Overview and Practical Advice, Pratt’s Energy Law Report, LexisNexis
- Finance, Mergers, and Acquisitions, in Recent Developments in Infrastructure and Regulated Industries, ABA
- BASELOAD: Current Topics in the Power and Energy Capital Markets
- Covenant Caution — 'Continuing Director' Change-of-Control Provisions after the Amylin Decision
- Finance, Mergers, and Acquisitions, in Recent Developments in Infrastructure and Regulated Industries, ABA
- The Evolving Public Interest – Recent Decisions in Utility Merger Proceedings, Infrastructure
- Recent Developments in Public Utility, Communications and Transportation Industries, Section of Public Utility, Communications and Transportation Law, ABA
- Structural Shift In ESG-Linked Debt May Make Issuance Easier, Law360
- Structural Shift In ESG-Linked Debt May Make Issuance Easier, Law360
- When Bad Things Happen After A Securities Pricing, Law360
- Utility Share Prices Under Pressure, Pratt’s Energy Law Report
- Finance, Mergers, and Acquisitions, in Recent Developments in Infrastructure and Regulated Industries, ABA
- Electronic Roadshows: Why The Voice-Over Matters, Law360
- Equity Press Release: When Time Is Not on Your Side, Law360
- Financing the Future: Three Innovative Approaches to Infrastructure Finance, Infrastructure
- BASELOAD: Current Topics in the Power and Utilities Capital Markets
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