Steven W. Laabs

As a member of Husch Blackwell’s Financial Services & Capital Markets group, Steve represents companies and business owners in a variety of corporate, commercial finance and real estate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations, private placements and business succession planning. Steve also advises entrepreneurs and emerging companies on entity formation, governance, equity and debt financing, and other general business matters.

Steve’s experience includes:

• Negotiating construction and permanent loans and credit facilities for regional and national commercial real estate developers.
• Advising a smartphone application development company on investor relations and multiple rounds of private financing.
• Negotiating and drafting vendor, supplier and licensing agreements for a midsize public company in the food and beverage industry.