Mr Steven Haas > Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP > Richmond, United States > Lawyer Profile
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP Offices
RIVERFRONT PLAZA, EAST TOWER
951 EAST BYRD STREET
RICHMOND, VA 23219
VIRGINIA
United States
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Mr Steven Haas
Work Department
Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate, Corporate Governance and Board Advisory, Capital Markets and Securities, Crisis Management, Global Economic Development, Commerce, and Government Relations Group, Environmental Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility
Position
Partner and co-head of the firm’s mergers and acquisitions team
Career
Steven is co-head of the firm’s mergers and acquisitions team. He represents clients on a wide variety of M&A transactions, including change-of-control transactions, public company sales, strategic acquisitions and divestitures. He also regularly advises companies, directors and officers in connection with corporate governance, shareholder activism and other fiduciary duty matters.
Steven is a fellow in the American College of Governance Counsel. He is the co-editor and a contributing author of Corporate Governance: Law and Practice (LexisNexis), co-author of Goolsby & Haas on Virginia Corporations (5th edition 2014, LexisNexis), and co-drafter of the Virginia Stock Corporation Act. In addition, Steven has authored more than 40 articles that have appeared in legal and business publications with several of his articles being cited by the Delaware Court of Chancery and the Delaware Supreme Court.
Steven is the chair of the Corporate Laws Committee of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association, which oversees the Model Business Corporation Act. In addition, he is an adjunct professor of law at the University of Richmond School of Law and been a guest lecturer at the University of Virginia School of Law.
Memberships
Admitted to the Delaware, District of Columbia and Virginia State Bars
Education
- JD, University of Virginia School of Law, Notes Editor, Virginia Law Review, 2004
- BA, Hampden-Sydney College, 1999
Lawyer Rankings
United States > M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP stands out for its strength in transactions involving the real estate, energy, accounting and private equity spaces. Steven Haas works from Richmond, and is proficient in change-of-control transactions, strategic M&A, and corporate governance matters. These are also core areas of activity for Steve Patterson in Washington DC, whose expertise extends to securities compliance. Houston-based Michael O’Leary is primarily engaged in energy M&A mandates.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Finance > Fintech
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Finance > Project finance
- Real estate > Real estate
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate