At Rogers & Hardin, his practice focuses on representing public companies and their officers and directors, regulated financial institutions and their registered representatives, and hedge fund managers in SEC, DOJ, FINRA, and other governmental and regulatory investigations and enforcement actions and in related private litigation. Steve has defended public companies and their officers and directors in matters involving a wide variety of issues, including insider trading, SEC financial reporting and disclosure, revenue recognition, stock option backdating, and loan loss allowance calculations. The securities industry matters have involved issues such as failure to supervise, securities sales practices, mutual fund market timing, wash-sale market manipulation, short-sale / PIPE transactions, mortgage practices, and margin regulations.