Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Capital Markets Mergers & Acquisitions Opportunity Zone Funds Real Estate REITs & Real Estate Capital Markets Tax Financial Products & Technology Blockchain Technologies Health Care, Life Sciences & Pharmaceuticals

Partner, Chair of Corporate Department, Co-Chair of Tax Practice, and Co-Leader of Opportunity Zone Funds Team

Steve is a tax and business lawyer with broad experience in designing and implementing M&A and real estate capital markets transactions. Clients appreciate his cutting-edge knowledge of the tax law and his ability to apply it in a grounded, common-sense manner to real estate and corporate transactions. 

Steve chairs Seyfarth's Corporate department and is co-chair of our national Tax practice. He is highly skilled in developing real estate and alternative investment programs of all types, including Qualified Opportunity Funds, REITs, investment funds, and complex like-kind exchange programs (such as Delaware Statutory Trust investment programs). Steve serves as general tax counsel to numerous businesses and entrepreneurs, and advises them on domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, equity compensation and related matters, and dispositions to strategic and financial acquirers. Clients praise Steve for his combination of sophisticated tax knowledge and understanding of their businesses.

Steve is recognized as a thought leader in tax structuring of investment programs for the capital markets industry. He has been recognized by The Legal 500 (Legalese Ltd.) (2014-2019) for his tax practice, and is a frequent speaker on tax and business issues in Qualified Opportunity Funds, real estate investment programs, and M&A transactions.

JD, Columbia University Law School

Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, all years

AM, Harvard University

BA, University of Wisconsin