Stéphanie J Binder

Stéphanie Binder is a corporate associate in the firm’s New York office. A native of Paris, Stéphanie is fluent in French and completed the French equivalent of a J.D. and an MBA in Paris before moving to the United States, where she earned her J.D. and practiced in Cravath, Swaine & Moore’s corporate department for six years.  Stéphanie’s business and legal education in France, along with her corporate experience in the U.S., gives her a unique perspective and ability to work seamlessly with our attorneys in both the firm’s New York and Paris offices.

Stéphanie’s corporate experience includes mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, internal restructuring, and capital markets, for which she has represented both issuers and underwriters during all phases of securities offerings, including equity offerings, investment grade corporate bonds, and high yield offerings. She has also advised clients during SEC investigations and on corporate compliance matters. Super Lawyers has recognized Stéphanie as a ‘Rising Star’ each year since 2017.

In addition to her prior experience at Cravath, Stéphanie was a foreign clerk for the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court for the State of Israel and interned in the Prosecutor’s Office of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, in Arusha, Tanzania. Stéphanie received her J.D. from Cornell Law School, where she was an editor of the International Law Journal, and a law degree, magna cum laude from Paris XI Law University, with a focus on business law and European and international law. She graduated, magna cum laude, from Essec Business School in Paris with an MBA degree, concentrating in finance and international business.