Mr Steven Ellis > Proskauer Rose LLP > Boston, United States > Lawyer Profile
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Mr Steven Ellis
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Position
Steven M. Ellis is the former Chair of Proskauer. He is a partner in Proskauer’s market-leading Private Credit Practice, a practice that Steve proudly founded and led to its dominant position in the market today, serving as head of that practice for over 15 years.
During his tenure as Chair of Proskauer, the Firm achieved record financial results and dramatically expanded its transactional platform and private capital offering.
With a client roster boasting over 75 asset managers, he has represented an array of secured lenders, second lien lenders, debt funds and private equity funds in all types of transactions from recapitalizations to acquisitions. He specializes in private credit financing transactions, including innovative, first-in-kind structures.
Steve serves as an active board member for Team IMPACT, Inc., a non-profit dedicated to improving the lives of kids battling diseases. A network of volunteers, coaches and players, Team IMPACT matches children facing serious or chronic illnesses with college athletic teams to form relationships that have life-changing outcomes.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Finance > Commercial lending
(Leading lawyers)With a firm foothold in the private credit sector, Proskauer Rose LLP boasts an impressive roster of lender clients, including The Carlyle Group, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. The team fields expertise in a range of credit financings, including senior-stretch, unitranche, second-lien and secured mezzanine loans. Justin Breen is a prominent figure in the private credit lending space and leads the firm’s global finance group. Gary Creem heads the firm’s private credit practice from Boston, alongside Michael Mezzacappa, who plays a lead role in financing and credit arrangement deals. Stephen Boyko focuses his practice on finance transactions, including leveraged buyouts and acquisition financings. Marc Freiss advises a diverse list of hedge funds, private equity funds, commercial finance companies and investment banks. In Los Angeles, Sandra Lee Montgomery represents first- and second-lien senior lenders, mezzanine investors and equity sponsors in financing and restructuring transactions. Former firm chair Steven Ellis is an experienced figure, based between New York and Boston. All attorneys mentioned are based in New York, unless stated otherwise.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading lawyers United States > Finance > Commercial lending
- Commercial lending United States > Finance
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Industry focus > Sport
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Tax > International tax
- Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending