Steph Ference

steph.ference@lw.com

+1.212.906.4670

Profile

Stephanie (Steph) Ference represents public and private clients in a broad range of corporate and M&A matters.

Steph advises companies on public and private and domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, divestitures and carve-outs, and internal reorganizations across sectors, including in the consumer and retail, technology, manufacturing, healthcare, financial services, and renewable energy sectors.

Prior to law school, Steph was an officer in the United States Army; she is a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom and recipient of the Bronze Star.

Experience

Steph's experience includes advising:

Brady Corporation on its purchase of Funai Electric's thermal inkjet microfluidics and related hardware research, development, and manufacturing business*
Bitstamp and its major shareholder NXMH on the sale of the cryptocurrency exchange to Robinhood*
Grosvenor Capital Management in its minority investment into Vesper Energy Development LLC*
JDE Peet's in its strategic transaction with Caribou Coffee*
Broadway Technology on the US$450 million sale of its equity interests to Bloomberg L.P.*
Firmament Capital Credit in its purchase of Young & Partners Navitrans International*
Altonomy Holdings Pte. Ltd. on the sale of its OTC trading platform for digital assets to Blockchain.com*
FNZ Group Technologies Limited on its 100% acquisition of YieldX Inc.*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham