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Shearman & Sterling LLP
Lexington Avenue New York City law firm
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Partner
Stephen Besen is a partner in the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions Group, with extensive experience in public and private mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances, proxy fights, capital markets and securities, private equity and merchant banking, and general corporate legal matters. Mr. Besen has also been actively involved in representing private equity sponsors and hedge funds in transactional and advisory matters funds. He joined the firm as a partner in 2001. Columbia University School of Law, J.D., 1983, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, SB in Management and Economics, 1980