Bio

Stephen 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 advisors 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 buyouts, formation of joint ventures and asset sales. S&C’s M&A financial advisory practice has advised on nearly 600 transactions with an aggregate value of more than $2.5 trillion since 2014. Mr. Kotran taught a course in mergers and acquisitions at Columbia Law School for eight years. He 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, M&A Committee of the ABA, National Council of the American Enterprise Institute, President’s Council of the National Constitution Center, Harvard Alumni For Free Speech and The Jefferson Council (UVA).