Steven K. White

Partner

DIRECT CONTACT

202.728.3024
steven.white@stinson.com

Steven White is a trial attorney and litigator focusing on financial transactions, professional liability, and corporate governance. He has extensive experience conducting complex discovery programs with efficiency and emphasis on successful client outcomes.

Representative Experience

Steven has broad experience in all areas of commercial and financial services litigation, including expertise in financial institution regulation, professional liability, and corporate governance. Steven represents business clients to resolve litigation issues arising from financing transactions; including creditor rights, lender liability, title, insurance coverage, and inter-creditor disputes. Steven litigates contested matters in the bankruptcy courts and regularly represents bankruptcy trustees and creditors.
Steven has frequently been called upon by the FDIC to conduct investigations and litigation relating to major bank failures. Most recently he was lead attorney for two FDIC receiverships in Illinois for claims brought against lawyers, directors and officers achieving recoveries of nearly $40 million between 2014 and 2016. He also represented the FDIC in an inter-corporate dispute over rights to tax refunds in Delaware bankruptcy court. In Arizona and DC he represented the FDIC in the Charlie Keating case and other claims arising from the failure of Lincoln Savings where, in addition to pursuing professional liability claims, he led successful defenses on behalf of the agency to claims Keating filed alleging regulatory misconduct.
Steven also has particular experience in handling business tort and fraud claims as well as pursuing collection of judgments in complex cases where assets are being concealed and setting aside fraudulent conveyances. Steven represented bond holders in pre- and post-judgment collection actions to seize U.S. assets of a foreign country that defaulted on its debt. He represented a national union in collection actions against a former officer found to have breached fiduciary duties to the union.
Steven represented an opt-out plaintiff in the multidistrict Vitamins Antitrust Class Action Litigation which recovered damages from a world-wide price fixing cartel.
Steven successfully defended a corporate CEO, in trial and appellate courts, on claims seeking personal liability for corporate obligations based on fraud theories.
Steven was selected as principal outside counsel for a troubled Maryland bank to guide an independent board of directors through a process of disengagement with abusive insiders, restoration of sound operations, and avoiding imminent government takeover.

Education

Georgetown University Law Center, J.D.
- Law and Policy in International Business, Editor
- American Jurisprudence Awards for Criminal Law and Comparative Law
Stanford University, Ph.D. Program, Department of Political Science
University of Iowa, B.A., honors and high distinction
- Phi Beta Kappa

Of Note

Steven clerked for the Honorable Shirley B. Jones, United States District Judge, District of Maryland.

Professional and Civic Activities

American Bar Association, Litigation Section
Federal Bar Association
Bar Association of the District of Columbia

Admissions

District of Columbia
Maryland
N.D.Illinois (federal)
U.S. Courts of Appeals for DC (First and Fourth Circuits)
U.S. Supreme Court

Steven K. White

DIRECT CONTACT

202.728.3024
steven.white@stinson.com

WASHINGTON, DC
1775 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite 800
Washington, DC 20006

Overview

Representative Experience

Steven has broad experience in all areas of commercial and financial services litigation, including expertise in financial institution regulation, professional liability, and corporate governance. Steven represents business clients to resolve litigation issues arising from financing transactions; including creditor rights, lender liability, title, insurance coverage, and inter-creditor disputes. Steven litigates contested matters in the bankruptcy courts and regularly represents bankruptcy trustees and creditors.
Steven has frequently been called upon by the FDIC to conduct investigations and litigation relating to major bank failures. Most recently he was lead attorney for two FDIC receiverships in Illinois for claims brought against lawyers, directors and officers achieving recoveries of nearly $40 million between 2014 and 2016. He also represented the FDIC in an inter-corporate dispute over rights to tax refunds in Delaware bankruptcy court. In Arizona and DC he represented the FDIC in the Charlie Keating case and other claims arising from the failure of Lincoln Savings where, in addition to pursuing professional liability claims, he led successful defenses on behalf of the agency to claims Keating filed alleging regulatory misconduct.
Steven also has particular experience in handling business tort and fraud claims as well as pursuing collection of judgments in complex cases where assets are being concealed and setting aside fraudulent conveyances. Steven represented bond holders in pre- and post-judgment collection actions to seize U.S. assets of a foreign country that defaulted on its debt. He represented a national union in collection actions against a former officer found to have breached fiduciary duties to the union.
Steven represented an opt-out plaintiff in the multidistrict Vitamins Antitrust Class Action Litigation which recovered damages from a world-wide price fixing cartel.
Steven successfully defended a corporate CEO, in trial and appellate courts, on claims seeking personal liability for corporate obligations based on fraud theories.
Steven was selected as principal outside counsel for a troubled Maryland bank to guide an independent board of directors through a process of disengagement with abusive insiders, restoration of sound operations, and avoiding imminent government takeover.

Education

Georgetown University Law Center, J.D.
- Law and Policy in International Business, Editor
- American Jurisprudence Awards for Criminal Law and Comparative Law
Stanford University, Ph.D. Program, Department of Political Science
University of Iowa, B.A., honors and high distinction
- Phi Beta Kappa

Of Note

Steven clerked for the Honorable Shirley B. Jones, United States District Judge, District of Maryland.

Professional and Civic Activities

American Bar Association, Litigation Section
Federal Bar Association
Bar Association of the District of Columbia

Admissions

District of Columbia
Maryland
N.D.Illinois (federal)
U.S. Courts of Appeals for DC (First and Fourth Circuits)
U.S. Supreme Court

Practices

Steven K. White

Partner

DIRECT CONTACT

Representative Experience

Education

Of Note

Professional and Civic Activities

Admissions

Recognitions

Steven K. White

DIRECT CONTACT

Overview

Representative Experience

Education

Of Note

Professional and Civic Activities

Admissions

Practices