Steve Kotran is a partner in the Firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions and Financial Services Groups. He is Head of the Firm’s Global M&A Financial Advisory and Valuation Group, Co-Head of Mergers & Acquisitions, North America, Co-Head of the Firm’s Global Private Equity Group and Co-Head of the Firm’s Global Insurance Practice. He represents buyers, sellers, special committees of independent directors and other principals as well as financial advisors in connection with U.S. and International M&A transactions and corporate governance matters in a wide range of industries, including negotiated and hostile acquisitions of public companies, negotiated sales of private companies, subsidiaries and divisions, transactions involving special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs), private equity transactions, leveraged buyouts, formation and dissolution of joint ventures and asset sales.