With nearly 40 years of practice experience, Steven Shapiro concentrates his practice in the finance, banking and corporate areas with a particular focus on financial institutions. He serves as the firm’s senior relationship partner for various financial services and corporate clients. Steven has acted as senior counsel on a variety of complex finance and corporate transactional matters for national financial institutions and public and private companies.

Steven’s practice includes representation of corporations in a variety of industries, including banking and financial institutions, financial services companies, commercial finance companies, investment banking firms and private equity investors and advisors. His experience covers many types of finance, treasury and corporate transactions and matters, including capital raising (public and private debt and equity) and treasury and finance matters, board of directors, audit committee, corporate governance and regulatory matters, structured finance and securitization transactions involving a wide variety of asset classes, secured and unsecured commercial loan and finance transactions, transactions involving the consolidation, acquisition and sale of both finance and non-finance companies and operating divisions, loan and lease portfolios and portfolios of other financial assets and joint venture transactions among institutional companies. Steven has also served as the principal outside general counsel for two commercial bank holding companies and their respective banks and other subsidiaries.

Steven has taught law school courses on contract drafting for commercial transactions and for many years was National Chairman of the firm’s Partner Review Committee, which reviews candidates for partnership in the firm.