Stephen Alicanti

Stephen P. Alicanti

Partner

Co-Head, Capital Markets and Public Company Advisory
New York Corporate Head
Member, Global Policy Committee

Stephen is incredibly smart, patient, responsive and clear. He is able to communicate complex subjects succinctly for non-lawyers.
— Client quoted in Chambers USA
New York
About

Stephen Alicanti focuses his practice on the representation of issuers and underwriters in a broad range of domestic and international capital markets transactions. These transactions include registered offerings and private placements of equity and debt securities.

Stephen has extensive experience representing issuers, investment banks and investors in transactions involving special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs). In addition, he regularly advises clients regarding Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reporting and disclosure requirements and corporate governance matters.

Stephen is a Certified Public Accountant and was previously an auditor with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.

Areas of FocusCorporateEquity Capital MarketsTechnologyHealthcareLife SciencesInsuranceMergers and Acquisitions
Bar admissionsNew YorkNew Jersey

EXPERIENCE

Stephen has advised both investment banks and issuers on over 85 capital markets transactions that have raised over $66 billion since 2025, spanning a range of industries and including initial public offerings, at-the-market offerings, private investments in public equity (PIPE), convertible note offerings, follow-on offerings and business combinations.

  • Abony Acquisition Corp. I in its US$230 million initial public offering
  • Barclays, Cantor Fitzgerald & Co, B. Riley Securities, Canaccord Genuity, Clear Street, Craig-Hallum Capital Group, Deutsche Bank, KeyBanc Capital Markets, Roth Capital Partners and Stifel Financial, as sales agents, in a $500 million at-the-market offering for Intuitive Machines, Inc. 
  • BofA Securities, Inc., Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., Barclays Capital Inc. and Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, as joint book-running managers, in a US$115 million underwritten public offering of common stock for Intuitive Machines
  • BTIG, LLC, as sole book-running manager, in the US$230 million initial public offering of Space Asset Acquisition Corp.
  • BTIG, LLC, as sole book-running manager, in the US$253 million initial public offering of Blue Water Acquisition Corp. III 
  • Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., as sales agent, in a US$24.5 billion at-the-market offering for BitMine Immersion Technologies, Inc.
  • Cantor Equity Partners III, Inc. in its US$1.7 billion business combination with AIR Limited
  • Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. and Moelis & Company LLC, as placement agents, in a US$1.5 billion PIPE for USA Rare Earth, Inc.
  • Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. and BTIG, LLC, as the initial purchasers, in an offering of US$1.15 billion aggregate principal amount of 0.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2032 by Cleanspark Inc.
  • Columbus McKinnon Corporation in a US$800 million PIPE
  • Einride AB in its US$1.3 billion business combination with Legato Merger Corp. III
  • Freightos Limited in its US$434 million business combination with Gesher I Acquisition Corp.
  • Haymaker Acquisition Corp. 4 in its US$972 million business combination with Suncrete
  • Jefferies LLC, Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. and Citigroup Global Markets Inc., as representatives of the initial purchasers, in an offering of US$150 million aggregate principal amount of 5.250% convertible senior notes due 2031 by Energy Vault Holdings, Inc.
  • J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and TD Cowen, as placement agents, in a US$134 million PIPE for IQM Finland OY
  • J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. in connection with the US$1.1 billion business combination between Intuitive Machines, LLC and Inflection Point Acquisition Corp.
  • Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, as lead book-running manager, in a US$1.036 billion public offering of common stock by TeraWulf Inc.
  • Tilray, Inc. in its US$400 million at-the-market offering
  • Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, as sole book-running manager, in the US$200 million initial public offering of X3 Acquisition Corp. Ltd.

Awards

Chambers USA

  • Up and Coming, Nationwide Capital Markets: Debt & Equity: Eastern United States, (2026)
  • Up and Coming, Nationwide SPACs, (2022 – 2023)
  • Up and Coming, Eastern United States Capital Markets: Debt & Equity, (2021)

Chambers Global

  • Up and Coming, Eastern United States Capital Markets: Debt & Equity, (2022)

The Legal 500 United States

  • Next Generation Partner, Capital Markets: Equity Offerings, (2023 – 2026)
  • Recommended, Capital Markets: Equity Offerings – Advice to Issuers, (2023 – 2024)
  • Recommended, Capital Markets: Equity Offerings – Advice to Managers, (2019 – 2020, 2023 – 2024)
 
Additional Recognitions
  • Recognized, Corporate Law and Securities / Capital Markets Law, Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America, (2026)
  • Named to the New York Metro Rising Stars list by Super Lawyers
  • Steve received academic scholarships from both Emory University's School of Law and Goizueta Business School
  • In law school, Steve received Dean's Awards for academic achievement in deal skills, mergers and acquisitions, legal profession and venture capital

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Education
  • J.D., Emory University School of Law
    Transactional Law Program
    with honors
    Managing Editor, Emory Law Journal
  • M.B.A., Finance, Emory University
    Beta Gamma Sigma
  • B.S., Accountancy, Villanova University
    cum laude

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Memberships And Affiliations

  • Board Member, Emory University Alumni Association, New York Chapter
  • Member, Committee on Securities Regulation, New York City Bar Association

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