For more than 40 years, Steven has used an entrepreneurial approach to counsel clients across an array of industries on acquisitions, mergers, and corporate finance transactions. He represents both established and emerging companies in expansion and financing strategies, corporate governance, succession planning, and related shareholder matters, viewed through a business lens. He uses his wealth of experience, creativity, and pragmatism to help clients achieve favorable results with efficiency. Steven, who formerly served as vice chair and co-chair of the firm’s Corporate Practice, is a strong advocate for clients while also working collaboratively and collegially with opposing counsel to secure optimal outcomes and close deals. He goes beyond the handling of transaction documents, guiding clients through the maze of complex legal, regulatory, and financial issues to provide a valuable and practical perspective based on decades of experience.
In addition to his corporate practice, Steven has been advising clients for more than 20 years in business aviation matters, representing domestic and international individuals, companies, and governmental agencies in purchasing, selling, leasing, and financing business aircraft from manufacturers, prior owners, and operators. He assists clients in negotiating and structuring aircraft ownership, charter, management, and leasing arrangements, including fractional interests, under Part 91 and Part 135 of the Federal Aviation Regulations and applicable Department of Transportation rules and regulations. Steven also represents automotive dealers in dealership sales, manufacturer negotiations, financing matters, and more.
Steven served for more than 10 years, until 2022, on the executive committee and board of trustees of Settlement Music School, the largest community-based arts and music school in the nation, and was the recipient of its Founders Award in 2015. Steven also served for more than 10 years on the board of the Arts and Business Council of Greater Philadelphia, including as its chair from 2012-2015; on the board of the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce from 2012-2015; and on the board of Temple Adath Israel in Merion, Pa., from 2015-2019. He also served as a child advocate for the Montgomery County, Pennsylvania Bar Association Child Advocacy Project.
Steven graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in 1979 and he received his law degree, cum laude, from Temple University School of Law, where he was an editor of Temple Law Review.