Corporate

Steptoe corporate lawyers represent companies in all types of complex business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt capital markets offerings, joint ventures, project financings and infrastructure development, syndicated loans, debt restructurings and bankruptcies, and privatizations. We work with clients at every stage of the business cycle, from entity formation and early stage financing, to day-to-day advice on business and legal issues, to navigating complicated multidisciplinary financial matters. Our lawyers lead many deals in heavily regulated industries and across international borders.

Our clients include multinational, domestic, regional companies in industries such as telecommunications, government contracts, consumer good manufacturing and distribution, renewable energy, retail and hospitality, real estate, and health care. We also represent issuers, underwriters, and investors in all types of financing and capital raising transactions.  

For many of our privately-held regional and national clients, our corporate lawyers serve in an outside general counsel role, advising on issues such as organizational structure, product distribution and supplier contracts, executive employment arrangements, and governance matters.

Our lawyers are recognized as leading lawyers in publications such as Best Lawyers in America, Legal 500 UK, Legal Experts UK, DealMakers, and Super Lawyers.  

Corporate Governance

Steptoe lawyers regularly counsel corporations, boards of directors, board committees, CEOs, CFOs, and other officers and directors on fulfilling their corporate responsibilities to shareholders and the public.

Managing corporate governance matters, frequently in coordination with Steptoe's top-shelf litigation group, is vital for public and private companies and their officers and directors in a legal and regulatory era of increasingly severe criminal and administrative penalties, large jury verdicts, and substantial settlements.