Bio

Steven Barth is a senior partner and business lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP. He is a former member of the firm's Management Committee and the former long-time chair of the firm’s National Mergers & Acquisitions, Capital Markets and Private Equity Transactions Practice. Steve practices in the areas of mergers, acquisitions, leveraged recapitalizations and buyouts; venture capital and private equity fund formation and portfolio company investment; public and private offerings of equity and debt securities; public corporation securities laws and reporting compliance; corporate governance; and the organization, development and financing of startup and development stage corporations. Steve also has extensive experience in counseling mid-market and closely held firms, including many family businesses. He specializes in helping mid-sized and family owned companies adopt and implement their strategic plans and transition ownership and management to the next family generation, to employees and to strategic or financial buyers. Steve is a member of the Food & Beverage, Manufacturing and Health Care Industry Teams. Steve has represented buyers, sellers, investors, and intermediaries in almost 700 business combination transactions aggregating over $24 billion in total consideration. He has worked on deals both domestically and internationally, involving both publicly held and private corporations, over a broad range of industries. Steve also has represented issuers or underwriters in securities offerings raising over $26 billion and he represents or has represented numerous publicly traded companies, including The Marcus Corporation (NYSE: MCS), Orion Energy Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: OESX), First Business Financial Services Inc. (NASDAQ: FBIZ), Cummins Inc. (NYSE: CMI), Perry Ellis International (NASDAQ: PERY), Perma-Pipe International Holdings (NASDAQ: PPIH), Rockwell Medical Inc. (NASDAQ: RMTI), Superior Services Inc. (NYSE: SUPR), EMC Insurance Group Inc. (NASDAQ: EMCI), Fresh Brands Inc. (NASDAQ: FRSH), MGIC Investment Corp. (NYSE: MTG), Northland Cranberries Inc. (NASDAQ: CRBY), Hein-Werner Inc. (AMEX: HWI) and Bucyrus International Inc. (NASDAQ: BUCY). Steve also is one of Robert W. Baird & Co. Inc.’s (leading mid-market investment banking firm) primary outside counsels.