Steve Peterson focuses his practice on corporate and securities law with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions. Steve represents public and private companies in connection with:
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Divestitures
- Joint ventures
- Securities offerings
- Corporate restructurings
- Venture capital
- Private equity financings
- Matters related to corporate governance
Steve’s practice includes the representation of several prominent family offices in their investment and financing activities. Steve’s experience spans diverse industries, such as:
- Energy (midstream, oil field services, electric power, renewable energy)
- Automotive dealerships
- Boutique hotels
- Restaurants
- Cinema dining
- Galvanized steel
- Industrial components
- Sports drinks
- Private aviation
- Ranches
- Food processing and packaging
Steve’s representative experience includes:
- Serving as outside general counsel to:
- A middle market private equity fund, including with its formation and organization and its M&A activities
- A private, luxury boutique resort management company, including general corporate, M&A and financing matters
- A power plant development company, including representing the company in connection with equity, debt and sub-debt financings of its power plant projects
- The U.S. operations of a publicly traded electricity supplier and power company based in Australia
- A mid-cap midstream public company in several strategic divestitures and acquisitions, including a joint venture with a large midstream public company
- A small-cap midstream public company in several strategic acquisitions, including its joint venture equity financing with a large public company
- 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
- A large public food services corporation based in Spain with its U.S. mergers and acquisitions
- A middle market private equity fund in several investments and divestitures in the oil field services and industrial services industries
- A large oil field services company in a strategic joint venture with another major oil field services company
- A large strategic joint venture in its development of several wind farms in United States with capacities to generate over 2,000 MW
- Two major automotive retail platforms in acquiring several foreign and domestic automotive dealerships, with deal sizes ranging from $30 million to over $100 million
- Startup, 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
- A large, independent gas storage company in its recapitalization transaction with one of the world's largest private equity funds