Stephen C. Mahon, Managing Partner of the firm’s Cincinnati office, focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, private equity and hedge fund investing, corporate financing activities and derivative instruments. He also provides advice to clients, including boards of directors, on matters such as corporate governance, securities law, strategic investments and joint ventures. He has held a number of leadership positions within the firm including as Global Business Practice Leader and as a member of the firm’s Management Committee from 2004 through 2008. He currently serves as the co-chair of the firm’s Private Equity Practice Group.

In the area of private equity investing, he represents a number of private equity funds in a broad variety of formation and investment matters. He has also assisted several hedge funds in formation and compliance matters. In the area of mergers and acquisitions, Mr. Mahon has led a number of transactions totaling billions of dollars.

Mr. Mahon also has played the primary outside role in assisting clients with capital markets transactions valued at more than US$4 billion. In addition, he has assisted both borrowers and financial institutions in completing large syndicated credit facilities.

Mr. Mahon is a member of the Board of Directors of the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden and several privately held corporations.

Representative Experience

• Advising on the purchase by a private equity fund of a consumer products business in the sporting goods channel.
• Representing several audit and other independent committees of publicly traded companies in connection with a broad variety of matters including Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance, corporate investigations and going private transactions.
• Advising on the formation of a private equity fund focused on investments in the financial services sector.
• Advising on a complex multibillion-dollar portfolio credit-derivative transaction and a Rule 144A private placement of preferred securities in a tax- and capital-efficient transaction for one of the largest US-based financial institutions.
• Advising on the disposition of several noncore businesses by a diversified manufacturing company.
• Advising on the disposition and leveraged recapitalization of one of the largest personnel services businesses in the Midwest.
• Advising on a multibillion-dollar acquisition for one of the largest US-based financial institutions.