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Steven E. Siesser is Co-Head of the Firm's New York City Office and is Chairman of the Firm's Specialty Finance Group, through which he represents investment funds, including private equity, mezzanine and hedge funds, in handling their transactional work, and investment banks, where they act either as agent or investor. Mr. Siesser is ranked among industry leaders and frequently serves as a media spokesperson for ongoing market trends and SEC regulatory updates. His commentary has appeared in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Investment Dealers' Digest, Dow Jones, Bloomberg, Fortune.com, Absolute Return, and International Financing Review, among other news outlets. Mr. Siesser has also served as a legal commentator on CNBC's "On the Money", Bloomberg News and Fox News. Mr. Siesser is listed in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, which in 2011 cited sources who praised, "'We respect his creative thinking and domain expertise - he knows the structured equity platform better than anybody," and in 2010 noted: "He doesn’t take his eyes off the big picture – he knows which issues to focus on, and where to compromise" …"He has an unbelievable head for business, and is creative, bright and practical." In 2008, LawDragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America ranked Mr. Siesser among the nation’s top 500 corporate attorneys.
The institutional investor segment of Mr. Siesser's practice has enabled him to develop extensive fund-specific experience in private debt and equity financing transactions, senior secured and mezzanine debt financing, control acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, and most notably in Private Investments in Public Equities (PIPEs), Registered Direct Placements (RDs), and reverse mergers. Lowenstein Sandler’s Specialty Finance Group continually ranks in the top three nationwide for its representation of investment funds and investment banks in PIPEs and RDs. He also represents issuers in these transactions, and regularly interacts with and is consulted by the Staff of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the NASDAQ Stock Market and the American Stock Exchange, on capital market aspects of PIPEs, RDs, and reverse merger transactions.
Mr. Siesser also has recently been involved in some of the firm's largest private equity sponsored LBO transactions, representing the lead equity sponsor or their portfolio companies. Most of these transactions have been in the communications, business services, media and publishing industries.
Mr. Siesser also serves as outside general counsel to public and large private, often family-owned, companies, with an emphasis on representing companies in the manufacturing, distribution and services industries, and a particular focus on companies in the consumer products, food and healthcare industries. He currently serves as outside general counsel to the third largest wholesale grocery supplier in the New York metropolitan area and one of the largest regional consumer products sales and marketing companies in the U.S.
While his work as general counsel requires Mr. Siesser to be conversant across a broad spectrum of legal practice areas, his specific experience is in corporate transactional work and securities law, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate finance, and general commercial relationships. Mr. Siesser has represented both public and private buyers and sellers in merger and acquisition transactions valued in excess of $15 billion. In his representation of public companies, Mr. Siesser advises senior management and boards of directors on fiduciary matters and securities law compliance. He also has assisted many of these companies with public and private debt and equity transactions valued at over $10 billion.
He has served as an Adjunct Professor of Mergers and Acquisitions at Seton Hall University School of Law.
Recent Speaking Engagements:
- Capital Roundtable Master Class, Panelist, "Private Equity Investing in Marketing & Digital Services Companies: Finding the Golden Nuggets in Today’s Data-Driven World,” New York, NY, June 23, 2011
- DealFlow Media PIPEs Conference 2010, Panelist "PIPEs Legal Update: Current Developments and Trends," Las Vegas, NV, Nov 9-10, 2010
- Dealflow Media's Reverse Merger Conference 2010, Panelist "Cross-Border Financing Opportunities: Tapping Canadian Investors for Capital," Toronto, Canada, June 29, 2010
- West LegalEdCenter Webinar, Topic: "What Private Equity Investors Need to Know About Section 363 Sales," February 11, 2010
- West Legalworks' National Webcast, Topic: "What's the Deal: The M&A Forecast Heading into 2010," September 24, 2009
- "Workshop: Raising Capital in the Current Market, Shelf Registrations - Why Every Issuers Should Have One", Roth Capital Partner's 21st Annual Stock Growth OC Conference, Dana Point, CA, February 16-18, 2009
- DealFlow Media PIPEs Conference 2008, Panelist "Getting Deals Done in a Turbulent Market: Making a Rational Assessment of Risk & Reward," New York, NY, Nov 12-13, 2008
- West Legalworks' National Webcast, Topic: "The Changing M&A Deal Environment," November 6, 2008
- 2008 Merriman Curhan Ford & Co. 5th Annual Investor Summit, Topic: Current Issues In PIPEs and Registered Directs, San Francisco, CA, September 15-16, 2008
- Committee on Securities Regulation, Topic: Emerging Regulatory Trends Facing Institutional Investors in Alternative Capital Market Investments, New York State Bar Association, June 11, 2008
- Derivatives & Structured Products Law Committee, Topic: Primer on PIPEs and Alternative Investments, Business Law Section of the New York State Bar Association, June 4, 2008
- 2008 China Venture Capital & Private Equity Forum, Topic: Financing Alternatives - PIPEs, Shenzhen, China, April 11, 2008
- International PIPEs Conference, Topic: Update on the PIPE Market: New Rules & Recent Pricing Trends, Hong Kong, China, April 8-10th, 2008
- Roth Capital Partner's 20th Annual OC Conference, Topic: Recent Developments in PIPEs and Registered Directs, Dana Point, CA, February 18-21, 2008
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Regulation Alert - SEC Issues Bulletin on Risks of Investing in Reverse Merger Companies - June 9, 2011
Specialty Finance Client Alert, June 2011
Steven Siesser,
John Hogoboom,
Steven Skolnick
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Opportunity For Public Companies Qualifying For SEC's "Smaller Reporting Company" Status: Save on SOX 404(b) Costs and Defer "Say-on-Pay/Frequency" Votes
Specialty Finance Alert, February 2011
Steven Siesser,
Laura Kuntz
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SEC v. Cuban, Round 2
The PIPEs Report, November 2, 2010
Steven Siesser,
Matthew Oliver,
Bernard Cooney
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In Pensions & Investments and Investment News, Steven E. Siesser comments on the recent trend of private equity firms forming business development companies (BDCs) as an alternative source of capital raising.,
Pensions & Investments, Investment News, September 19, 2011
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In the New York Law Journal, Steven E. Siesser discusses the expansion of the firm's New York office, which has added 41,900 square feet to its 1251 Avenue of the Americas location. The office expansion is in response to increased activity, including growth in core practice areas and new attorneys joining the firm.,
New York Law Journal, July 6, 2011
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In a LegalBisnow profile, Steven E. Siesser discusses the growth of Lowenstein Sandler's New York office.,
LegalBisnow, March 14, 2011
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Brooklyn Law School
(J.D., 1994)
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George Washington University
(M.A., 1991)
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George Washington University
(B.A., 1990)
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New Jersey
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New York
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- New York State Bar Association
- Seton Hall University School of Law, Adjunct Professor, Mergers and Acquisitions
- American Bar Association
- New Jersey State Bar Association
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