Mr. Stevens serves as special executive compensation counsel to many publicly traded companies, closely-held businesses, and individual executives, including:

• one of the nation’s preeminent energy services companies;
• an industry-leading supplier of residential and commercial flooring products;
• a global alternative asset manager with over $150 billion in assets under management;
• the world’s leading hospitality company;
• the world’s largest home improvement retailer;
• a national real estate investment company;
• one of the largest independent commercial banking organizations in Florida;
• the executive team of a leading real estate development company; and
• the CEO of U.S. operations for the manufacturer of the world’s most awar- winning ultra-premium vodka.

Representative transactional experience includes:

• Counsel to a global private equity fund with respect to executive compensation issues in connection with its $3.9 billion acquisition of a telecommunications equipment company.
• Counsel to a leading provider of technology and business solutions with respect to equity compensation, change in control agreements and related tax issues in connection with its $2.6 billion acquisition by an asset management company in a going-private transaction.
• Counsel to a leading hospital services company regarding retention and severance arrangements and “golden parachute” tax planning in connection with a $1.7 billion merger transaction.
• Counsel to the management of one of the nation’s largest optical companies relating to executive investment and equity incentives in connection with an acquisition by a private equity investor.