Steve Kotran is a partner in the Firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions and Financial Services Groups, leads its M&A financial advisory practice, and is a member of the Firm’s FinTech, Healthcare & Life Sciences and Private Equity practices. He represents buyers, sellers, special committees of independent directors and other principals as well as financial advisers in connection with M&A transactions in a wide range of industries, including negotiated and hostile acquisitions of public companies, negotiated sales of private companies, subsidiaries and divisions, transactions involving special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs), private equity transactions, leveraged buy-outs, formation of joint ventures and asset sales.
Mr. Kotran has been a Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School, where he taught a course in mergers and acquisitions, and also has lectured at NYU, Stanford, UPenn, UVA, Fordham and other law schools. He also is a frequent speaker on M&A matters at professional programs sponsored by the American Bar Association, the Practical Law Institute and numerous other organizations.
Mr. Kotran is a member of the Corporate and M&A Advisory Board of Practical Law, the National Council of the American Enterprise Institute and the President’s Council of the National Constitution Center.