Bio

Steven Wasserman is a partner and a practice group leader of the Firm’s Special Situations, Credit & Trading Practice Group. Steve is a member of the Firm’s Management Committee. Steve has extensive experience in the areas of distressed debt and claims trading, mergers and acquisitions, private and public securities offerings, including initial public offerings (representing both issuers and underwriters), SEC reporting matters and venture capital transactions. He also advises his clients, both small private companies and large public institutions, in general corporate matters. His clients have included various hedge funds in their distressed bank debt trading activities as well as the New York and London distressed bank trading desks of several major investment banks. Steve regularly advises clients participating in the market for distressed assets and claims, providing transactional guidance to clients that originate, restructure and trade these assets. He and the Firm’s Distressed Debt & Trading group have represented clients in thousands of transactions in bank loans, credit derivatives and trade claims relating to hundreds of borrowers and debtors, both domestic and international. Such borrowers have included Lehman, American Airlines, MF Global, Madoff, General Motors, Enron, Federal Mogul, Adelphia, Mirant, Northwest Airlines, Tribune, Delta, and Boston Generating.