Mr Steven Haas > Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP > Richmond, United States > Lawyer Profile

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
RIVERFRONT PLAZA, EAST TOWER
951 EAST BYRD STREET
RICHMOND, VA 23219
VIRGINIA
United States

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 corporate team

Career

Steven is global co-head of the corporate team and former co-head of its M&A practice. He represents clients on a variety of M&A transactions, including change-of-control transactions, public company sales, strategic acquisitions and divestitures. He also regularly advises directors and officers on corporate governance and 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 a former 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, New York 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)

With ‘deep experience’ in the M&A practice, Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP works in coordination with its capital markets and data security departments to advise on M&A due diligence, regulatory matters, and corporate restructurings. Counting mortgage and utilities companies amongst its client roster, the team’s scope of work also includes REIT M&A, energy M&A, and public and private transactions. The group is co-led by Richmond lawyer Steven Haas, who covers strategic acquisitions and divestitures, shareholder activism, and public company sales, and Washington DC-based Steven Patterson, a key contact for public and private securities offerings. In Houston, Michael O’Leary is skilled in private equity, joint ventures, and spin-offs, while Miami-based Fernando Alonso handles M&A in the finance sector, often representing foreign clients in their US acquisitions.