Steve Peck is a partner in the Corporate Department and member of the firm’s Private Equity and Mergers & Acquisitions Group and its Structured Private Capital Group. He represents sophisticated private investment funds, multi-national corporations and other market participants in their most challenging transactional matters.
Steve's broad practice focuses on private equity buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, growth equity, minority investments and distressed transactions. His buyout and M&A experience includes transactions ranging from middle market to multi-billion dollar transactions in a variety of industry sectors, including healthcare, software and SaaS based companies, financial services (including fund manager M&A), other human capital management companies, manufacturing and consumer/retail. As a member of the Structured Private Capital Group, Steve has deep experience with non-traditional equity transactions, including debt-like preferred equity as third party financing, equity kickers and co-investments for private credit investors and debt for equity swaps, lender remedies and related transactions involving troubled companies.
Steve has consistently been recognized as a leading lawyer in the field of private equity and buyouts by Chambers USA and Best Lawyers.
cum laude
cum laude
American Bar Association
Massachusetts Bar Association
Chambers USA: Massachusetts: Private Equity: Buyouts: 2007-2022
Chambers USA: Massachusetts: Corporate/M&A 2016-2024
Best Lawyers in America: Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law: 2008-2013, 2015-2024
The Legal 500 United States: Mergers, Acquisitions and Buyouts: Private Equity Buyouts 2014-2018, 2022-2024
The Legal 500 United States: Mergers, Acquisitions and Buyouts: M&A: Large Deals 2014