Mr Steven Kirshenbaum > Proskauer Rose LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
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Mr Steven Kirshenbaum
Work Department
CORPORATE
Position
Steve Kirshenbaum is a senior partner in Proskauer’s Corporate Department with over 40 years of experience counselling clients in complex strategic transactions, securities compliance, corporate governance matters, and other commercial issues. Steve is a former member of Proskauer’s Executive Committee, co- Chair of the Corporate Department and Managing Partner of the Proskauer’s Paris office.
Steve has extensive experience advising on a wide range of domestic and international/cross-border acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures, reorganizations and other business combinations and related commercial transactions. Boards of directors and management teams also look to Steve for strategic and practical business oriented judgment across a full range of other public company, operational and general corporate activities.
He has advised clients in many different industries including manufacturing and distribution, technology, health care, entertainment and media, hospitality, farming and food production, industrial packaging, logistics, automotive, printing, insurance and financial services, building products, defense technologies, apparel and fashion, and retail sales.
Steve’s clients have included, among others, public companies such as Henry Schein, Inc., Ascena Retail Group, United Industrial Corporation, Finley Enterprises, Inc. and C&D Technologies, Inc.; European companies including The Laird Group Plc., Tyman Plc., Dealogic Plc., Allied Domecq Plc, Belron S.A., The Albert Fisher Group Plc, Bollore SE, Bull SA, Club Méditerranée S.A., and Mauser-Werke GmbH; as well as private equity funds and individual entrepreneurs.
Steve also has experience leading transactions in a chapter 11 reorganization context, including, among others, the sale by an Australian client of the Bonwit Teller store chain; the sale of a motion picture and video distribution company; the acquisition of three Mississippi stern-wheeler luxury cruise vessels (including the historic landmark, The Mississippi Queen); the acquisition by a German client of a manufacturer and refurbisher of industrial bulk containers; and the acquisition by a UK client of an auto-glass company with multiple locations.
Steve has served on the board of directors of Ascena Retail Group (the Fortune 500 parent of seven retail fashion brands including Ann Taylor, the Loft, Lane Bryant and dressbarn), and on the boards of directors of Lawyers Alliance of New York, a not-for-profit provider of pro bono legal assistance, and the Summit Music Festival. He also chaired Practising Law Institute courses on negotiating commercial transactions and has sat on bar association committees.
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Industry focus > Sport
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- 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)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- 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