Steven Slutzky is a corporate partner and Co-Chair of the firm’s Capital Markets Group and a member of the firm’s Private Equity, Special Situations and Public Company Advisory Groups. His practice focuses on securities offerings and related transactions, and he regularly represents issuers and underwriters in securities transactions including initial public offerings, high-yield debt offerings, secondary equity offerings, debt offerings, tender offers and consent solicitations and private placements.

Mr. Slutzky was named Dealmaker of the Year by The American Lawyer (2014) for his role in advising Verizon on its $49 billion bond offering, the largest-ever corporate bond issue. Mr. Slutzky is currently ranked as a leading capital markets lawyer in Chambers Global (2015–2025), which describes him as “very dedicated and proactive” with “great subject matter expertise,” and in Chambers USA (2015–2025), where clients describe him as a “great capital markets lawyer and zealous advocate” and an “outstanding lawyer, one of the best I have ever worked with.” He is also ranked Highly Regarded by IFLR1000 (2024) and as a Leading Partner in The Legal 500 US (2025).Mr. Slutzky serves as a director of Brooklyn Legal Services, Start Small Think Big and Sanctuary for Families.

Mr. Slutzky is a frequent contributor to the Debevoise & Plimpton Private Equity Report on topics related to capital markets and corporate governance. Additional recent articles include “The End of Quarterly Reporting in the United States?,” Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance (October, 2025); “Choppy Waters: Navigating Board Diversity amid Changing DEI Sentiment,” Agenda (March, 2025); “Debevoise & Plimpton Discusses SEC Accommodations for Draft Registration Statements,” CLS Blue Sky Blog (March, 2025); “Key Considerations for the 2024 Proxy Season,” Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance (January, 2024); “Hackers Turned Whistleblowers: SEC Cybersecurity Rules Weaponized Over Ransom Threat,” NYU PCCE (November, 2023); “Debevoise Discusses Fifth Circuit Decision on Fixing Share Repurchase Rules,” CLS Blue Sky Blog (November, 2023); “SEC Adopts New Cybersecurity Rules for Issuers – Part 2 Key Takeaways,” NYU Compliance & Enforcement (August, 2023); “SEC Adopts New Cybersecurity Rules for Issuers,” NYU Compliance & Enforcement (July, 2023); “SEC Adopts Share Repurchase Disclosure Rules,” NYU Compliance & Enforcement (May, 2023); Chambers Practice Guides - Private Equity: USA 2019 (August, 2019) and “Top 10 Practice Tips: Secondary Offerings,” Lexis Practice Advisor (September, 2018).

Mr. Slutzky received his B.S. from Lehigh University in 1988 and his J.D. from New York Law School summa cum laude in 1993, where he was a notes and comments editor of the Law Review.