{"id":10623,"date":"2015-09-21T03:53:54","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T19:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/profile\/steven-b-levine\/"},"modified":"2024-01-17T15:00:35","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T20:00:35","slug":"steven-b-levine","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/profile\/steven-b-levine\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven B. Levine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Steven Levine<\/strong> is a senior partner at Brown Rudnick, LLP where he has practiced law since graduating from law school in 1981. He regularly represents official and unofficial creditors\u2019 committees, senior and junior lenders, hedge funds, asset purchasers and other constituencies in restructuring matters and the documentation, structuring and recovery of complex financial transactions. With more than 40 years of experience in the bankruptcy and finance area, he has developed particular skill in debtor-in-possession financings, cash collateral and stay litigation, the analysis of avoidance and other causes of action and the negotiation, documentation and implementation of plans of reorganization. He is also frequently called upon by Brown Rudnick litigators to analyze potential disputes involving provisions of indentures, credit agreements and other types of complex financial instruments. Over the course of his career, he has had a very eclectic practice in which he has handled virtually every type of business transaction and dispute.<\/p>\n<p>Steve has significant experience in asset based and specialty lending (particularly to retailers), high yield bond issuances, securitizations and representing consortiums of first and second lien and high-yield noteholders in out-of-court restructurings and debt-for-equity and debt-for-debt exchange offers.<\/p>\n<p>Steve has been selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America in the fields of Banking and Finance Law, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights\/Insolvency and Reorganization Law, and Bankruptcy Litigation, and frequently speaks on finance and reorganization topics at CLE and other panels and has published numerous articles.<\/p>\n<p>Steve teaches in both the JD and Graduate Banking programs. For more than 25 years, he has co-taught a course on Securitization and Structured Finance in the Graduate Banking Program. More recently, Steve has also taught \u201cTransaction Simulation: The Rise and Fall of a Syndicated Loan\u201d in the Transactional Law Program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4833,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/10623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4833"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/10623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106458,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/10623\/revisions\/106458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}