| Biography:
Steven Kirshenbaum is a partner in the Corporate Department of Proskauer Rose LLP and a former co-chair of the Department. He has a broad-based general corporate, finance and securities practice, representing domestic and foreign clients, both public and privately held.
Steve has extensive experience handling a wide range of domestic and international/cross-border transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, reorganizations and other business combinations, as well as private placements, public debt offerings and other financings. His international practice has involved companies in more than 25 foreign countries, including most European countries, China, Japan, India, Australia, Canada, Israel, the Caribbean and Mexico. Steve's clients have been engaged in many different industries including manufacturing and distribution, high technology, entertainment and media, pharmaceutical, farming and food production, industrial packaging, shipping, printing, insurance and financial services, health care, defense technologies, hospitality, apparel and fashion, and retail sales.
Steve has handled numerous public and private M&A transactions, representing both buyers and sellers, including negotiated acquisitions, auctions and competitive bids, and management and other leveraged buyouts. Steve also has handled a broad range of joint ventures, financings and other transactions, many of which have been cross-border. His client representation has included, among others, public companies such as Metlife, Inc., The Dress Barn, Inc., United Industrial Corporation, Henry Schein, Inc., Finley Enterprises, Inc., C&D Technologies, Inc., Giant Cement Company, Inc. and Kapson Senior Quarters, Inc.; private equity funds such as Veronis Suhler, Charterhouse, and JP Morgan/Chase; and foreign multinational clients such as The Laird Group Plc., Allied Domecq Plc, Belron S.A.,The Albert Fisher Group Plc, Triplex Lloyd Plc, Club Mediterranee S.A., Bollore SA, Mauser-Werke GmbH & Co. KG, Cassina S.p.A. and Bertelsmann.
Steve's securities practice includes public and private equity offerings, going-private and other transactions and counseling clients on '34 Act compliance and corporate governance matters. Steve's securities clients have ranged from domestic companies, such as The Dress Barn, Inc., Henry Schein, Inc., United Industrial Corporation, Finley Enterprises, Inc., C&D Technologies, Inc., Giant Cement Company, Inc. and Canal Capital Corporation, to foreign private issuers such as Club Med, Scitex and Nova Measuring Instruments.
Steve also has in-depth experience representing companies in transactions in a Chapter 11 bankruptcy context, such as, among others; the sale by L.J. Hooker of the Bonwit Teller store chain, the sale by Vestron, Inc. of a motion picture and video distribution company in a prepackaged Chapter 11; the acquisition by Delaware North Companies, Inc. of several Mississippi stern- wheeler luxury cruise vessels (including the historic landmark, The Mississippi Queen); the acquisition of multiple retail store locations by The Dress Barn, Inc., and the acquisition by Mauser-Werke of the assets and business of Russell-Stanley Corporation, a manufacturer and refurbisher of industrial bulk containers.
Steve acts as outside general counsel to many of his clients and has advised on many day-to-day legal, strategic and business issues, covering a full range of general corporate activities.
Steve serves on the Board of Directors of Lawyers Alliance of New York, a not-for-profit organization that provides pro bono legal assistance, and on the Board of the Summit Music Festival, a not-for-profit arts festival in Westchester, New York. He also served for many years as Chair of a Practising Law Institute course on Negotiating Commercial Transactions and has been a member of committees of the Bar Association of the City of New York.
He has been recognized as a leader in his field by Chambers USA, selected as one of “The Best Lawyers in America” and a “New York Super Lawyer,” and is recognized in the US Legal 500.
Steve joined the Firm in 1976 upon graduation from law school. He is a summa cum laude graduate of Cornell University, School of Arts and Sciences, and a cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School.
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