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.
Education
- Columbia Law School, J.D.
- Amherst College, B.A.
Admissions & Qualifications
- New York
Memberships
Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) Capital Markets Committee, Past Member
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) Corporate Financing Committee, Past Member
Brooklyn Friends School, Trustee
Farm and Wilderness Foundation, Trustee
Black Law Students Association, Columbia Law School, Member