Steve Landsman engages in a general corporate, business counseling, and tax practice, with special emphasis in the area of mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Landsman has extensive in-depth experience in numerous industries as lead counsel representing both purchasers and sellers in a wide variety of transactions including public to public, private to public, private to private, leveraged recapitalization, divisional or asset sales and joint venture/strategic alliance transactions. His clientele consists of LBO and private equity groups, public companies, strategic corporate or institutional entities, investment subsidiaries of public companies and private investors/owners. From 2005 to 2008, he was co-chair of DLA Piper's Mergers and Acquisitions practice group.

Mr. Landsman has been a speaker on various corporate law and arbitration matters at seminars and meetings conducted by The American Bar Association, Mergers & Acquisitions magazine, M&A Source, The National Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, and the American Arbitration Association. In addition, Mr. Landsman has been the author of several published articles in his field.

The respected English research firm Chambers & Partners cites Mr. Landsman in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business and has described him as an “excellent negotiator with long experience in M&A.” He has been designated an Illinois Super Lawyer, as the result of research projects conducted jointly by Law & Politics and Chicago magazines. Mr. Landsman is also listed in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in American Law, and Martindale-Hubbell rates him "AV," its highest available rating.

Representative Matters

• Representation of Austin Engineering, Ltd., on Australian public company, in its acquisition of Western Technology Services, Inc.
• Representation of the shareholders of Brad Foote Gear Works, Inc. in a sale to Tower Tech Holdings, Inc. (OTC:BB TWRT)
• Representation of Tower Tech Holdings, Inc. (OTC:BB TWRT) in its acquisition of Energy Maintenance System, LLC.
• Representation of a private equity group in its acquisition of a temporary staffing company.
• Representation of Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc. (NYSE) in its acquisition of Spaulding & Slye, LLC.
• Representation of Kuhlman Corporation (NYSE) in its merger with Borg Warner Automotive Corporation (NYSE)
• Representation of AJG Financial Services, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. (NYSE), in a continuing series of investment and acquisition transactions
• Representation of Arcelor Steel in its disposition of certain non-core U.S.-based operations to Ryerson Tull, Inc. (NYSE)
• Representation of two private equity groups in their joint acquisition of a commercial printing company.
• Representation of Zale Homes, a privately owned regional home builder, in its sale to KB Home (NYSE)

ZULASSUNGEN

• Illinois
• United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
• United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
• United States Tax Court

Mitgliedschaften

• Illinois State Bar Association
• Chicago Bar Association

Publikationen

• Co-Editor of The Mergers & Acquisitions Handbook - First Edition (2007) Bowne & Co., Inc.

Seminars

• Panelist and featured speaker at "Shanghai Capital Markets Forum 2007," Shanghai, China (April 2007).
• Panelist, "Financing in Today's Market, Accessing Capital, Expanding Market Share and Building the Value of Your Business," National Manufacturer's Association Show (February 24, 2004).
• Panelist and Featured Speaker, “Acquisitions as an Option for Corporate Growth”, M&A Source (May 2, 2005).

Ehrenamtliche und gemeinnützige Tätigkeiten

• Chairman, Do The Write Thing (1997-2007)
• Recipient of the Jane Addams Medal of Honor from the Juvenile Protective Association
• Recipient of the Judge Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Civil Rights Award from the Anti-Defamation League