AREAS OF CONCENTRATION

• Private equity including venture capital, MBO’s, restructuring of troubled companies and recapitalizations
• Formation of Private Equity Funds and Funds of Funds
• University Technology Transfer (University and Tech Transfer clients)
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Securities transactions including Regulation D Offerings and Section 4(6) Exemptions (crowd-funding) and private resale transactions
• Federal and State Securities enforcement actions
• Federal and State Tax Audits and Controversies (individual, partnership and corporate)
• Professional Practice Transitions, including specialty medical, dental (including orthodontics), optometry, law, architecture, and CPA
• Commercial Finance and Lending
• Commercial Real Estate Development and Related Tax Credit Financings
  
  Steven L. Brooks is a partner in the Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Group, practicing from the firm’s Rogers office.  Steven’s practice focuses on capital formation, mergers and acquisitions, commercial transactions and real estate including syndication, in commercial lending and out of court restructuring, and in taxation of business enterprises.  Steven has experience representing clients nationally in connection with private offerings of securities; structuring private equity funds and issuers; individual, corporate, and partnership tax matters; complex investment and commercial lending transactions; IRS, state, and local audit protests; and planning for start-up companies. 
  
  Steven also represents clients in the natural gas and/or drilling industry, including a proppant manufacturer (frac sand), landowners and well operators, with respect to a variety of business, merger and acquisition, tax, land use, regulatory and environmental issues.

• University of Arkansas School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2003; Member, Arkansas Law Review; Member, Board of Advocates
• Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas, B.S.B.A. in Accounting, 1995

• "The Venture Capital Investment Act of 2001, Arkansas's Vision for Economic Growth," 56 Ark. L. Rev. 397, 2003

• Listed in Chambers and Partners USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Corporate/Commercial
• Practiced as a CPA focusing on partnership and corporate taxation and special projects for mergers and acquisitions clients
• 2006 Inductee Northwest Arkansas Business 40 under Forty
• Frequent lecturer and writer on a variety of tax and securities topics
• Founding Board Member of Consumer Product Innovation Lab, a business accelerator specializing in consumer package goods companies (similar to Y Combinator and TechStars)
• Founding Board Member of UAMS Innovations, Inc., a non-profit early-stage capital facilitator and business accelerator specializing in pharmaceutical and medical related for profit business ventures
• Business mentor for The ARK, a Northwest Arkansas based business accelerator specializing in information technology companies(also modeled after Y Combinator and TechStars)

• Arkansas Bar Association
• Texas Bar
• Federal District Court Western District of Arkansas
• U.S. Tax Court
• Arkansas Society of CPAs
• American Institute of CPAs

• Arkansas Bar, 2003