Steve is an entrepreneurial and results-oriented general counsel and business executive with extensive experience analyzing, structuring, negotiating and closing sophisticated commercial transactions. As in-house legal counsel to the company, he provides legal advice and guidance on a wide range of issues including corporate governance, deal evaluation and structuring, operations, HR, management, leasing, construction, land-use and zoning, title, contract review, litigation, drafting and negotiation. Prior to his role with Patoka, Steve spent over a decade in private practice including five years as partner with the law firm Bingham Greenebaum Doll, LLP (now known as Dentons).
Steve received his B.A. (magna cum laude) from Eastern Kentucky University and his J.D. from the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law (cum laude) where he served as Executive Editor on the Law Review. He is a board member of and serves as Vice President for Economic Development for the Oldham Chamber and is president of a local non-profit he co-founded, Business Leaders of Oldham County. He also serves as a board member of Cabbage Patch Settlement House in Louisville, Kentucky.
April, 2019 - present
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