Steven Lipin

Steve Lipin is a trusted advisor in the field of strategic, financial and corporate governance communications. Steve has spent over 40 years at the intersection of the corporate world, Wall Street and the media, as a leading financial journalist and top communications strategist to C-Suites and boards of directors. Steve started Gladstone Place Partners in 2017 after 16 years at Brunswick Group, where he was U.S. Senior Partner overseeing the development and growth of the U.S. practice. Steve is also a lecturer at Berkeley Law teaching a class on M&A and proxy contests.

At Gladstone Place Partners, Steve has worked on assignments such as The Walt Disney Company’s $70 billion acquisition of 21st Century Fox assets, Pfizer’s $10 billion acquisition of Metsera, QXO’s $11 billion hostile takeover of Beacon Roofing Supply, 3G Capital’s $9.4 billion buyout of Skechers, AT&T’s sale of Time Warner to Discovery, Take-Two Interactive’s $12.7 billion acquisition of Zynga, as well as many others. Steve has worked on landmark M&A deals such as InBev’s acquisition of Anheuser-Busch, AB InBev’s acquisitions of Grupo Modelo and SAB Miller, Marriott International’s acquisition of Starwood, American Airlines’ sale to US Airways, and many others.

He also advises many companies on shareholder activism defense and shareholder engagements, including Pfizer, The Walt Disney Company, AT&T, Illumina, Duke Energy, Marriott, Heinz, PepsiCo, Yahoo!, Macy’s, AIG, Freeport-McMoRan and Arconic, among others.

Before his career in communications, Steve spent 17 years in financial journalism, 10 of which were at The Wall Street Journal. Steve was The Journal’s Finance Editor, supervising the paper’s coverage of mergers, commercial banking, private equity and corporate finance, after five years as the M&A beat reporter during which he was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. He joined The Journal in 1991 to cover banking after stints at Institutional Investor and American Banker.

Born in New York City, Steve graduated from Boston College with a bachelor’s degree in Economics. He is a board member of the Millstein Center at Columbia Law School, the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism at Columbia Journalism School, the Columbia Journalism Review and Youth INC. Steve has three children and lives in New York City with his wife.