Steven M. Goldman's practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, financings, joint ventures, private placements, leveraged buyouts and general corporate counseling. He has represented numerous banks in connection with financing of acquisitions and recapitalizations, and insurance brokerages in connection with regulatory enforcement issues and in purchase and sale transactions.
Before joining Kramer Levin, Mr. Goldman was the State of New Jersey’s Department of Banking and Insurance Commissioner, appointed by Governor Jon S. Corzine. In that role, he chaired the Reinsurance Task Force at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners which completed a framework for modernizing the regulation of reinsurance in the United States and between the United States and other countries. He also chaired the International Insurance Relations Committee of the NAIC, and the Reinsurance and other Forms of Risk Transfer Subcommittee on behalf of the U.S. at the International Association of Insurance Supervisors. Mr. Goldman was also one of seven commissioners nationally developing insurance regulatory modernization reform proposals on behalf of the NAIC.
In the non-profit sector, Mr. Goldman served on the Board of Directors of Holy Name Hospital in Teaneck, New Jersey for 13 years and also served as the hospital’s outside counsel in numerous matters. He is on the Dean’s Board of Advisors for The George Washington University Law School; is a member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee, Chair of the Operations and Finance Committee and Assistant Treasurer of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center; and is a member of the U.S. Trust Northeast Client Advisory Council. He is also a member of the Economic Club of New York.
In the for-profit sector, Mr. Goldman serves as a board member for MWW Group, the fifth largest privately held public relations firm in the country; Hi-Touch Business Services, a leading supplier of office supplies and related products on a business to business basis; and North Jersey Community Bank, the fastest growing community bank in the State of New Jersey.
Mr. Goldman has testified before Congress on multiple occasions regarding insurance regulation and health care reform.
Mr. Goldman is a member of the Bar in New York, New Jersey and Florida.