# Steven Maksin

> Steven Maksin is the New York-based founder and CEO of Moonbeam Capital Investments, whose work centers on distressed real estate, non-performing loans and property redevelopment in the United States. A Kyiv-born immigrant with qualifications in business, law and taxation, he also supports a Kingsborough Community College scholarship and lends historical objects to museums.

- **Role:** Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Moonbeam Capital Investments LLC
- **Organizations:** Moonbeam Capital Investments LLC, Maksin Legal Group PLLC, Maksin & Maksin, CPAs PLLC, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (former), NYU Stern real estate advisory board, Kingsborough Community College Foundation (trustee listed in 2018-2020 report)
- **From:** Kyiv, Ukraine
- **Education:** Liberal arts graduate, Kingsborough Community College, Bachelor of Science, cum laude, New York University Stern School of Business, Juris Doctor, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, LL.M. in Taxation, New York University School of Law
- **Known for:** Graduated cum laude from NYU Stern., Established the Steven V. Maksin Endowed Scholarship at Kingsborough., Serves on the NYU Stern real estate advisory board.

## Career timeline

- **1989** — Arrived in the United States from Ukraine at age 21.
- **1992** — Graduated from Kingsborough Community College.
- **1994** — Graduated from NYU Stern; company biography dates tax and business advisory work at PwC from 1994 to 2002.
- **2000** — Received a law degree from Cardozo.
- **2002** — Received an NYU LL.M. in Taxation; a 2026 sponsored biography dates the opening of his law and accounting businesses to January 2002.
- **2019** — Discussed alternative shopping-center uses in a sponsored Shopping Center Business interview.
- **2021** — Named among donors funding the Met acquisition of an 1869 Smith & Wesson revolver.
- **2024** — Filed a federal media-defamation lawsuit with Moonbeam in December.

## Achievements

- Graduated cum laude from NYU Stern.
- Established the Steven V. Maksin Endowed Scholarship at Kingsborough.
- Serves on the NYU Stern real estate advisory board.
- Helped fund a 2021 Metropolitan Museum of Art acquisition and lends historical firearms to the museum.
- With Natalie Maksin, donated the Burlington Center elephant sculpture Petal for public display.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Moonbeam republished an April 2026 sponsored profile discussing Maksin’s art collecting and museum loans, with a photograph of him beside the family collection’s Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy.
- **2026-08** — Moonbeam published a comparative article advocating the family collection painting’s attribution to Caravaggio, while acknowledging that the attribution debate remains open.
- **2025-12** — A federal court allowed Moonbeam’s defamation claim over a statement in the original March 2024 WESA article to proceed, and dismissed the claim concerning the corrected version; this was a motion-to-dismiss ruling.

## Links

- Website: https://moonbeamcapital.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-maksin-b4842932a

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