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With over 20 years of experience advising on and executing capital markets transactions, Steve Burwell focuses on corporate and securities law matters and public company representation across all industries, including, but not limited to, financial services, healthcare and life sciences.

Steve offers clients extensive experience within the banking industry that makes him uniquely positioned to counsel issuers and underwriters on a wide array of debt and equity capital markets transactions. Steve has enjoyed a significant and lengthy career at Deutsche Bank, holding various legal positions within the organization. His most recent role was that of Managing Director and Associate General Counsel, Head of Corporate Finance/Global Capital Markets Legal in the Americas.

In addition to his tenure at Deutsche Bank, Steve has practiced in the New York offices of major international law firms, where he focused on corporate and securities law.

Steve has worked on numerous cross-border transactions for European, Asian and Latin American issuer clients selling securities in the U.S. Within the equity capital markets space, he has done initial public offerings, follow-on offerings, secondary offerings, block trades, Rule 144 sales, private placements, registered directs, Private Investments in Public Equities (PIPEs), convertible bond/preferred offerings and special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) transactions.

Steve previously served on the board of the non-profit Farm & Wilderness Foundation, which provides summer camps and programs focused on social justice and environmental sustainability for children and teens, and also previously served on the board of non-profit Brooklyn Friends School, a college preparatory Quaker school that supports a culturally-diverse educational community from preschool through 12th grade.

This week, our corporate colleagues published a handy guide to the SEC’s new proposed rules on SPACs. Of particular note to securities watchers should be potential increases in litigation stemming from changes to the definition of “blank check company” for the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (the “PSLRA”).

Last week, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission proposed a set of sweeping new rules requiring public companies to disclose climate-related risks in their registration statements and periodic reports.  Under the proposed rules, public companies would have to disclose the actual and potential impacts of climate change on their business,