RICHMOND, Va. — August 12, 2013 — Hunton & Williams LLP announces partner Steven M. Haas was selected as a winner among the "40 Under 40" legal advisors by The M&A Advisor. The "40 Under 40" award was created to recognize emerging leaders in the M&A, financing and turnaround industries.

Haas's practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance. He has represented clients in numerous public and private M&A transactions, including transactions that have been awarded M&A Atlas Awards for Consumer Goods and Services Deal of the Year (2010), North American Deal of the Year (2011 deal range $1 to $5 billion), North American Corporate Deal of the Year – Middle Markets (2011), and M&A Atlas Deal of the Year – Americas Large Middle Markets (2012). He is also the co-editor of the leading treatise Corporate Governance: Law and Practice (LexisNexis).