Edward E Steiner

Practice Areas

Corporate

Mergers & Acquisitions

Private Equity

Financial Services

Insurance & Reinsurance

Corporate Securities

Career

Ed Steiner is a member of the Global Corporate Practice Group. The focus of his practice is corporate, securities and financing law, where he has extensive experience in mergers, acquisitions and divestitures representing both public and closely held corporations and other entities, including statutory public benefit entities. He also represents investment-limited partnerships in venture capital and private equity investment transactions. He has significant experience in initial and follow-on public offerings of securities, and in representing issuers and investors in private placements of securities. He has been an expert witness on matters of corporate governance and transactional matters.

Prior to joining Squire Patton Boggs, Ed was a partner from 1993 to 2017 at Keating Muething & Klekamp. He also served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, where he taught Corporate Finance (2005-2007), Venture Capital & Private Equity (2008-2013) and Mergers & Acquisitions (2014-2015).

Professional Memberships

Member, Business Law Section of the American Bar Association

Member, Corporation Law Committee of the Ohio State Bar Association

Member, Cincinnati Bar Association

Member, Hamilton County Tax Levy Review Committee, 2011-2017

Board of Directors, Armstrong World Industries, 2009-2010

Board of Directors, Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium (MTEC) 2017-

Board of Directors, Cincinnati Public Radio, Inc. 2022-

Publications

Ohio: Sale of Substantially All the Assets of a Failing Business

Corporate Governance in an Emergency

The SEC’s Evolving Posture Toward Proxy Advisors: What It Will Mean for the Upcoming Proxy Season

Delaware Court Concludes Shareholder Appraisal Action Is a “Securities Claim” Under a D&O Policy

Awards