Mr Stephen Boyko > Proskauer Rose LLP > Boston, United States > Lawyer Profile
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Mr Stephen Boyko
Work Department
Corporate
Position
Stephen A. Boyko is the co-chair of Proskauer’s Corporate Department and co-head of The Private Credit and Finance Groups.
Steve’s primary focus is in finance transactions, particularly those involving private sources of capital. He represents one of the largest client rosters in the industry, including an array of specialty finance companies, private debt funds, business development companies (BDCs), CLOs, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, hedge funds, private equity investors and issuers in connection with leveraged buyouts, growth capital investments, acquisition financings, going-private transactions, management buyouts, as well as other finance-related transactions, including innovative, first-in-kind transactions across the U.S. and in the UK.
Steve has had extensive experience in intercreditor and interlender issues, secured creditor and bankruptcy rights, debt restructurings, and private equity investments. In the past 20 years, he has closed finance transactions with an aggregate value of approximately $75 billion. Steve actively represents over 50 clients in transactions that have ranged from $5 million to $1 billion.
Steve also has extensive capital markets experience, including the representation of issuers and underwriters in offerings of high-yield securities, debentures, medium-term notes, preferred stock, common stock and other structured securities.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Finance > Commercial lending
In recent years, Proskauer Rose LLP has cemented itself as a dominant force in the alternative lender market, and is now one of the most active firms with regards to representing private capital providers in the middle-market. The practice counts almost all of the major non-bank lenders in its client portfolio, frequently working with Owl Rock Capital Partners, Antares, Apollo and others on senior secured credit facilities. The group also has a history of innovation, having developed novel structures including upside-down unitranches and synthetic mezzanine loans , as well as migrating the bifurcated unitranche into the European market. Steven Ellis and Stephen Boyko co-lead the national team from Boston, though the department also has a presence in New York and Los Angeles. Boyko’s expertise includes representing sovereign wealth funds, private debt funds, and insurance companies, while advises more than 75 asset managers. New York partner Ron Franklin is the go-to practitioner for fund finance.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Tax > Financial products
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions): defense
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Industry focus > Sport
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Industry focus > Insurance: advice to policyholders
- Tax > International tax
- Tax > Not-for-profit (nonprofit and tax exempt organizations)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Industry focus > Environment: transactional
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Industry focus > Healthcare: life sciences
- Industry focus > Healthcare: service providers
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings