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Steven Rutkovsky

Work Department

Steve focuses on complex leveraged finance and fund finance transactions. He represents private equity funds, credit funds, and public and private companies in a wide range of financings, including leverage buyouts, acquisitions, dividend recaps, fund subscription lines and leverage facilities, involving both syndicated and privately place debt at all levels of the capital structure. Steve is chair of the firm’s Opinion Practices Committee.

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Top Tier Firm Rankings

• Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
• Dispute resolution > E-discovery
• Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
• Healthcare > Service providers

Firm Rankings

• Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
• Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
• Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
• Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
• Healthcare > Life sciences
• Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
• Tax > Not-for-profit (nonprofit and tax exempt organizations)
• Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
• M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
• Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
• Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
• M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
• Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
• Antitrust > Cartel
• M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
• Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
• Real estate > Real estate
• Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
• Government > State attorneys general
• Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
• Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
• Finance > Fintech
• Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
• Antitrust > Merger control
• Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
• Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
• Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
• Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
• Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
• Tax > US taxes: contentious
• M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
• Finance > Financial services regulation
• Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
• Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
• Finance > Commercial lending
• Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
• Finance > Structured finance: securitization
• International Trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions