Stephen Giove, a partner in the Capital Markets Group and the Co-Chair of the firm’s Corporate Governance Advisory Group, focuses his practice on counseling corporate clients with respect to compliance, strategic and financing matters. He regularly represents public (and pre-IPO) companies and their boards with respect to SEC compliance and reporting matters, financing transactions, corporate governance matters, and strategic corporate transactions. He has represented corporate clients in a wide variety of corporate transactions, including spin-offs, split-offs, tender offers, exchange offers, consent solicitations, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, pre-packaged bankruptcies and out-of-court restructurings. His financing experience includes representation of issuers and underwriters in initial public offerings and offerings of common and preferred stock, convertible securities, high yield and investment grade debt and commercial paper. He joined the firm in 1987, became a partner in 1993, was the firm’s hiring partner from 1997-1999, was the co-head of its U.S. Capital Markets Group from 2003-2007 and was a member of the firm’s Global Business Development Committee from 2008-2010.