Locke Lord

Steve Peterson focuses his practice on corporate and securities law. Steve represents public and private companies in connection with mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, securities offerings, corporate restructurings, venture capital, private equity financings, and matters related to corporate governance, with a heavy emphasis on mergers and acquisitions. Steve also has significant experience representing clients in the midstream energy industry and the automotive dealership industry.

Representative Experience

• Currently serve as outside general counsel to a middle market private equity fund, including with its formation and organization and its M&A activities
• Currently serve as outside general counsel to a private, luxury boutique resort management company, including general corporate, M&A and financing matters
• Currently serve as outside general counsel to a power plant development company, including representing the company in connection with equity, debt and sub-debt financings of its power plant projects
• Represent a mid-cap midstream public company in several strategic divestitures and acquisitions, including a joint venture with a large midstream public company
• Represent a small-cap midstream public company in several strategic acquisitions, including its joint venture equity financing with a large public company
• Represented anchor investor and general partner in connection with the formation of a $250 million private equity fund, and currently serve as outside counsel for the fund's general partner
• Represent a large public food services corporation based in Spain with its U.S. mergers and acquisitions
• Currently serve as outside general counsel for U.S. operations of a publicly traded electricity supplier and power company based in Australia
• Represented a middle market private equity fund in several investments and divestitures in the oil field services and industrial services industries
• Represented a large oil field services company in a strategic joint venture with another major oil field services company
• Represented a large strategic joint venture in its development of several wind farms in United States with capacities to generate over 2,000 MW
• Represented two major automotive retail platforms in acquiring several foreign and domestic automotive dealerships, with deal sizes ranging from $30 million to over $100 million
• Represented start-up, emerging and middle market companies in several mergers and acquisitions in a variety of industries, including construction contracting companies, software companies, oil field service companies, geophysical and seismic data companies, and health care providers, with deal sizes ranging from $5 million to $500 million
• Represented a large, independent gas storage company in its recapitalization transaction with one of the world's largest private equity funds

Professional Affiliations and Recognitions

• Member, State Bar of Texas
• Member, Houston Bar Association

Community Leadership

• Volunteer, Children Literacy Campaign