Awards & Rankings 06.26.23
Steve brings an incredible mix of sophisticated business savvy and down-to-earth pragmatism.
Stephen B. Huttler offers clients a global perspective shaped by four decades of strategic counseling. Clients view Steve as a trusted advisor and senior statesman.
Steve focuses on transactions, disputes and regulatory issues that cross national borders. He represents businesses, governments and individuals from outside the United States, addressing issues within the country and U.S. clients regarding matters abroad, with an emphasis on commerciality balanced with traditional legal advice.
Representative Experience
- Represented several major non-U.S. financial institutions before the U.S. Department of Justice regarding alleged federal law violations and negotiated nonprosecution agreements on their behalf.
- Advised an international investor and led team of 20 professionals and consultants regarding a complex proposal to secure a $2 billion federal facility in the Washington, DC, area.
- Represented a foreign investor in connection with significant investments in U.S. professional sports teams.
View More
- Complex Business Transactions
- Represented a regional bank in connection with a proposed bank merger.
- Represented a Saudi engineering firm in connection with a major joint venture with a British firm involving development of refineries in Saudi Arabia.
- Represented the Washington National Opera in connection with its entry into an Affiliation Agreement with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
- Represented a regional bank in connection with a major shareholder investment in the bank.
- Distressed Transactions
- Represented a large financial institution (through predecessor banks) in workouts of over 50 loans involving in excess of $1 billion.
- Represented foreign investor in a failing New Zealand joint venture involving development of a national historic site.
- Represented of the bidders on, and acquirers of, several pools of defaulted real estate loans, as well as numerous real estate assets, from the RTC and the FDIC.
- Handled the disposition of nonperforming loans on behalf of both borrowers and lenders, including office, retail, residential and industrial properties.
- Represented a major venture capital investor in a failing internet tee-time booking company.
- Representation of Foreign Investors
- Advised two sovereign governments from the Middle East on their development of civil nuclear power programs.
- Represented German corporates in acquisition of businesses in the U.S. in both public market and private transactions.
- Represented Indian investors in U.S. capital markets.
- Represented a party involved in the development of extensive residential “townships” in India.
- Represented Saudi investors in U.S. commercial office properties.
- Represented European investors in U.S. ranch and agricultural properties. At one point, clients were among the largest owners of farm land in Georgia.
- Disputes and Dispute Resolution
- Successfully defended proceedings brought in U.S. federal courts against a foreign individual accused of involvement in crimes against humanity.
- Represented a senior foreign government official in connection with litigation filed in the United States alleging crimes against humanity.
- Specifically brought into a number of pending litigations to help client find a way to reach a settlement.
- Advised in connection with several significant joint venture disputes.
- Real Estate Transactions
- Handled the assemblage of hundreds of acres of land for the development of a Delaware resort community.
- Advised a Canadian corporation in connection with the acquisition of several major mixed-use land parcels in Prince George’s County, Maryland.
- Advised in connection the largest ground leased condominium development in Delaware.
- Handled all aspects of shopping center acquisition, disposition, exchange, financing and refinancing.
- Represented buyers and sellers in dozens of purchases and sales of commercial office buildings.
- Represented landlords and tenants in dozens of commercial lease transactions.
Professional Highlights
- Recognized by Best Lawyers (published by BL Rankings LLC), Real Estate Law (2022 – 2024).
- Managing partner of Shaw Pittman prior to its 2005 merger with Pillsbury. Served as executive vice chair of the combined firm prior to his appointment as senior partner.
- Received the “International Jurists Award” from the International Council of Jurists.
View More
- Associations
- American Bar Association
- American Bar Association – International Division
- International Bar Association
- Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate
- International Council of Shopping Centers
- Urban Land Institute
- Speaking Engagements
- “Knowledge Congress on Industry, Infrastructure & Energy,” Asian Business Leadership Forum, October 2012. Panelist.
Education
-
J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 1974
B.A., Syracuse University, 1971
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 1970
Admissions
-
District of Columbia
Courts
-
U.S. Supreme Court
Languages
-
German