Stephen M Kotran

Practice Areas

M&A, M&A Financial Advisory, Insurance, Financial Services, Private Equity

Career

Steve Kotran represents buyers, sellers, special committees and other principals as well as financial advisers in M&A transactions in a wide range of industries, including negotiated and hostile acquisitions, negotiated sales of private companies, subsidiaries and divisions, transactions involving SPACs, private equity transactions, leveraged buy-outs, formation of joint ventures and asset sales. S&C’s M&A financial advisory practice has advised on nearly 600 transactions with an aggregate value of more than $2.5 trillion since 2014.

Steve heads S&C’s M&A financial advisory practice and is a member of the Firm’s FinTech, Healthcare and Private Equity practices. He has been a Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School and has lectured at NYU, Stanford, UPenn, UVA, Fordham and others. He frequently speaks at programs sponsored by the ABA, PLI and numerous other organizations.

Clients include: Bank of America, Barclays, BMO Capital Markets, Centerview, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Duff & Phelps, Evercore, FT Partners, Goldman Sachs, Greenhill & Co., Guggenheim Securities, Houlihan Lokey, JPMorgan, Lincoln Partners, LionTree, Macquarie Capital, Moelis & Co., Morgan Stanley, Nomura Securities, Rothschild, UBS Investment Bank and Wells Fargo Securities, among other investment banks.

Professional Memberships

Corporate and M&A Advisory Board of Practical Law, the National Council of the American Enterprise Institute, the President’s Council of the National Constitution Center, Harvard Alumni For Free Speech and The Jefferson Council (UVA)

Personal

University of Virginia Law (JD, 1990); Harvard (BA, 1985). Law clerk, Honorable Edward R. Becker, US Court of Appeals Third Circuit, 1990-1991