Steven Lipin

Steve is the founder of Gladstone Place Partners, a strategic advisory firm supporting C-Suite leaders around communications, investor relations and corporate reputation.

Gladstone was founded by Steve in Oct 2017 after 16 years as head of Brunswick Group’s US practice. Clients include AB InBev, Apollo, Citi, IBM, Vanguard, Salesforce and many others. Steve is one of the deans of the M&A communications business, and a trusted advisor to CEOs, management teams and boards of directors.

Built and developed the U.S. practice of Brunswick Group, an international communications and public relations firm.

Led many of the biggest m&a transactions during that time period, including the rise of AB InBev, Roche Genentech, Mars-Wrigley, American Airlines-US Airways and many other landmark deals.

Covered banking and M&A, and eventually rose to finance editor.

Broke many big exclusive M&A stories, nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting.

Covered commercial banking and the real estate crash of early 1990s as well as highly leveraged companies and transactions.

Covered corporate finance and investment banking.

Reporter and editor for newsletter division, worked on BondWeek.