Biography
Steven Bentsianov is counsel in Weil’s Public Company Advisory Group and is based in New York. Steven participates in advising U.S. public companies and foreign private issuers on securities law issues, disclosure, governance and compliance matters, including M&A and capital markets transactions.
Prior to joining Weil, Steven was a Corporate associate at another international law firm.
Steven received his J.D., magna cum laude, from Brooklyn Law School, where he served as Managing Editor of the Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law, and his B.A. from SUNY Binghamton University. He is fluent in Russian.
Latest Thinking
Latest Thinking
- Heads Up for the 2022 Proxy Season: ISS and Glass Lewis Release Voting Policy Updates for 2022 Alert — Governance & Securities — By Lyuba Goltser, Kaitlin Descovich and Michael Foland — PDF — December 22, 2021
- SEC Adopts Universal Proxy Cards – Giving Activists Access to a Company’s Proxy Card With Relatively Low Barriers to Entry Alert — Governance & Securities — By Adé Heyliger — PDF — November 22, 2021
- SEC Issues New Staff Guidance (SLB 14L) That Makes it Harder to Exclude Climate Change and Human Capital Management-Related Shareholder Proposals Alert — Governance & Securities — By Adé Heyliger, Shira Barron and Emily Tso — PDF — November 16, 2021
- Heads-Up for the 2021 Proxy Season: Focus on Diversity Disclosure Alert — Governance & Securities — By Lyuba Goltser, Adé Heyliger and Kaitlin Descovich — PDF — March 22, 2021