Bio

Stephen Quinlivan has a strong reputation in M&A, securities and international transactions, offering a rare combination of excellence and value who presents well to boards. Steve represents clients across the United States in mergers and acquisitions, ESOPs, REITs, securities regulation, securities offerings, international transactions and financing matters. He uses his deep background in law, finance, accounting and project management to complete his clients' most strategically important and challenging assignments. Steve assists clients on SEC reporting matters, advises boards of directors in corporate governance and liability issues and works with litigation teams defending officers and directors. Steve assists public companies in evaluating unsolicited offers and defense of activist investors. Steve's M&A experience includes cross-border transactions, asset purchases, public and private mergers and tender offers. He is adept at private placements, initial public offerings, high-yield offerings, investment grade debt, securitizations and international offerings by foreign private issuers. Steve joined Stinson LLP in 1997 after seven years of corporate transactional practice in the New York, London and Hong Kong offices of Cravath, Swaine & Moore. He has five years of experience as a certified public accountant as an audit manager with KPMG and its predecessors.