EXPERIENCE

Steven’s recent transactions include representing:

• ADP in its successful proxy contest against Pershing Square
• Angelo Gordon in its $2.7 billion sale to TPG
• Aptiv in the formation of a $4 billion autonomous-driving joint venture with Hyundai Motor Group and in its $4.3 billion acquisition of Wind River from TPG Capital
• Barnes & Noble in its sale to an affiliate of Elliott Management
• Bellisio Foods in its $1.075 billion sale to Charoen Pokphand Foods
  
• Chambers Street Properties as counsel to the board of trustees and in its merger of equals with Gramercy Property Trust for an enterprise value of $5.7 billion
• Chesapeake Lodging Trust in its $2.7 billion sale to Park Hotels & Resorts
• Chevron in its proposed $50 billion acquisition of Anadarko Petroleum
• Chico’s FAS in its successful proxy contest against Barington Capital
• Citigroup in the sale of Nikko Asset Management to Sumitomo Trust
• Commvault in the activist campaigns by, and settlement agreements with, Elliott Management and Starboard Value
• Continental Grain Company in its $4.5 billion joint venture with Cargill to acquire Sanderson Farms
• The special committee of the Expedia Group board of directors in its acquisition of Liberty Expedia Holdings
• General Electric in the $21.4 billion sale of its BioPharma business to Danaher; in the more than $30 billion combination of its jet leasing unit, GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS), with AerCap Holdings; in its reorganization through spin-offs into separate publicly traded aviation, healthcare and energy companies and GE Capital in the sale of PK AirFinance to Apollo Global Management and Athene Holding
• General Motors Co. in its $3.45 billion acquisition of SoftBank Vision Fund’s equity ownership stake and assumption of Softbank’s investment obligation in the autonomous vehicle joint venture Cruise
• Harris Corporation in the sale of its Government IT Services business to Veritas Capital
• Honeywell International in the spin-off of its Transportation Systems business to form Garrett Motion
• IBM in its $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat; the spin-off of Kyndryl Holdings, Inc., its managed infrastructure services business, into a separate publicly traded company; its $4.6 billion acquisition of Apptio; its separate acquisitions of Dialexa, Envizi, Instana Neudesic and NS1; and the sale of The Weather Company to Francisco Partners
• Imperial Sugar Company as special counsel to the board of directors and in its sale to Louis Dreyfus Commodities
• International Strategy & Investment Group in its sale to Evercore
• Janus Capital Group in its strategic alliance with Dai-ichi Life
• L3Harris Technologies in the $1 billion sale of its Airport Security and Automation business to Leidos Holdings
• Mastercard in its acquisition of Orbiscom
• Nuance Communications in its $19.7 billion sale to Microsoft, the spin-off of its Automotive business to form Cerence and in the sale of its Document Imaging business to Kofax
• The special committee of the Pilgrim’s Pride board of directors in its $1.3 billion acquisition of Moy Park from JBS
• Qualcomm in its successful defense against a $142 billion hostile takeover offer from Broadcom and in the proposed $47 billion acquisition of NXP Semiconductors
• Reckitt Benckiser Group in its successful $1.4 billion topping bid and tender offer for Schiff Nutrition International and in its collaboration agreement with Bristol-Myers Squibb for, and related option to acquire, various market-leading OTC pharmaceutical brands in Latin America and Mexico
• Red Hat in its acquisition of StackRox
• Resolute Forest Products in its $2.7 billion sale to The Paper Excellence Group through the Group’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Domtar Corporation
• Spectrum Brands in its $1.4 billion acquisition of Armored AutoGroup and its acquisition of Procter & Gamble’s European Pet Food business
• Tencent Holdings in its going-private acquisition of eLong, its investment in Glu Mobile and its investment, together with JD.com, in Bitauto Holdings
• Trane Technologies in the $15 billion Reverse Morris Trust spin-off and merger of its industrial business with Gardner Denver Holdings
• XPO Logistics in the separation of its tech-enabled brokered transportation services from its less-than-truckload (LTL) business in North America to create two separate publicly traded companies

Steven served as a notes editor of the Columbia Law Review and was a James Kent Scholar and a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. Steven is the recipient of a Legal Aid Society award for outstanding pro bono representation. Steven is a member of the advisory board of the Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance and a board member of Citizens Committee for New York City.

Steven is recognized as a leading lawyer for his work on “M&A: Large Deals ($1bn+)” and as a recommended lawyer for “Shareholder Activism: Advice to Boards” by The Legal 500. Steven was featured as one of Lawdragon’s “500 Leading Dealmakers in America” for 2022.