Steve Peterson

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