Steven Lichtenfeld is a real estate and finance lawyer based in New York City. As of 2016, he was a partner at Proskauer Rose and the co-head of the firm’s real estate capital markets and real estate finance groups. His clients include sovereign wealth funds, investment banks, real estate funds, hedge funds, and REITs, including Fortress Investment Group, Lloyds Banking Group, UBS Real Estate Securities, Soros Strategic Partners, The Related Companies, and Tribeca Associates and he advises on matters such as public offerings and private placements of debt and equity securities, mergers and acquisitions, and senior and mezzanine financings. Lichtenfeld received a JD from American University’s Washington College of Law in 1981 and duel BS-BA degrees from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri in 1978. –MK