practice areas
honors + affiliations
Listed as Recognized, Corporate Governance, PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook 2008
Member, Business Law Section, American Bar Association
Member, Banking and Business Law Section, New York Bar Association
Member, Committee on Securities Regulation, New York State Bar Association
Member, Securities Regulation Committee, Bar Association of the City of New York
bar admissions
- New York
Court Admissions
- U.S. Supreme Court
- New York
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101 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10178-0060
Phone: 212.309.6050
Fax: 212.309.6001
Steve Farrell is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Business and Finance Practice and a leader of the Securities Industry Practice. His practice focuses on a variety of domestic and international business transactions, including public and private offerings and other financing transactions, as well as mergers and acquisitions involving public companies and going-private transactions.
As part of his practice, Mr. Farrell has advised many U.S. and foreign issuers and underwriters in offerings of debt and equity securities and stock exchange listings both in the United States and overseas. He is a frequent lecturer on securities law and practice and corporate governance, including the obligations of directors, officers and companies under the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
Mr. Farrell received his LL.M. in taxation from New York University Law School in 1979, his J.D. from Fordham Law School in 1971, and his A.B. in history from Holy Cross College in 1968. He is admitted to practice in New York and before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Selected Representations
Selected recent transactions in which Mr. Farrell has participated include:
Equity Offerings
Counsel to the underwriters in the $160 million initial public offering of Costamare Inc.
Counsel to Danaos Corporation in its $200 million private placement.
Counsel to Jefferies Group Inc. in its $500 million common stock offering.
Counsel to the underwriters in the $228 million initial public offering of Baltic Trading Inc.
Counsel to the underwriters in the $121.5 million follow-on offerings of Safe Bulkers Inc.
Counsel to Tsakos Energy Navigation Ltd. in connection with its $121.5 million follow-on offerings.
Counsel to the sales agent for the $1.325 billion at-the-market offerings of DryShips Inc. and the underwriters of its $700 million convertible senior note offerings and share lending facilities.
Counsel to the underwriters and placement agents in the $439 million offerings of common stock by Paragon Shipping Inc.
Counsel to the underwriters in the $95 million public offering and Nasdaq listing of FreeSeas Inc. and its $18 million follow-on offering.
Counsel to the underwriters in the $235 million initial public offering and Nasdaq listing by OceanFreight, Inc.
Counsel to the underwriters in the $47 million public offering and Nasdaq listing of Euroseas, Ltd. and in its $185 million follow-on offerings of common stock.
Counsel to Danaos Corporation in its $215 million initial public offering and New York Stock Exchange listing.
Counsel to the placement agent in the $295 million private offering by JLM Tankers LLC.
Counsel to the placement agents in the $195 million private offering by Quintana Maritime Limited of its mandatorily convertible preferred stock.
Counsel to the underwriters in the $269 million initial public offering and Nasdaq listing of DryShips Inc.
Counsel to the underwriters in the $178 million offerings of common stock by Excel Maritime Carriers Ltd.
Counsel to Jefferies Group Inc. in the $125 million private placement of its cumulative convertible preferred stock.
Counsel to StealthGas Inc. in its $100 million initial public offering and Nasdaq listing and in its $130 million follow-on offering of common stock.
Counsel to Primus Guaranty Ltd. in its $140 million initial public offering and New York Stock Exchange listing.
Counsel to the underwriters in the $147 million initial public offering and Nasdaq listing of Top Tankers Inc. and in the $217 million follow-on offerings of common stock.
Counsel to Tsakos Energy Navigation Ltd. in its $95 million initial public offering and New York Stock Exchange listing and its $81 million follow-on offering of common shares.
Debt Offerings
Counsel to Jefferies Group Inc. in the $500 million offering of its 30-year Senior Debentures, the $350 million offering of its 12-year Senior Notes, and the $800 million offering of its 7-year Senior Notes.
Counsel to Primus Guaranty Ltd. in the $125 million offering and New York Stock Exchange listing of its 30-year Senior Notes.
Counsel to Primus Financial Products LLC in the $125 million 144A offering of its 15-year Senior Subordinated Notes.
U.S. Counsel to Assa Abloy Financial Services AB in the $330 million private placement of its Guaranteed Senior Notes.
Counsel to Novell, Inc. in the $600 million 144A offering of its 20-year Senior Convertible Debentures.
Counsel to Quintiles Transnational Corp. in the $450 million 144A offering of its 10-year Senior Subordinated Notes.
U.S. Counsel to Getinge AB in the $250 million private placement of its Senior Notes.
Counsel to Sierra Health Services, Inc. in the $115 million 144A offering of its 20-year Senior Convertible Debentures.
Counsel to Pharma Services Intermediate Holding Corp. in the $219 million 144A offering of its 10-year Senior Discount Notes.
Acquisition
Quintana Maritime Limited in its $2.6 billion acquisition by Excel Maritime Carriers Ltd.
education
- New York University School of Law, 1979, LL.M.
- Fordham University School of Law, 1971, J.D.
- College of the Holy Cross, 1968, A.B.