Gunderson Dettmer LLP

Fund Formation, Fund Operations and Compliance, Tax

Steve is a founding partner of the firm and heads our global Fund Formation practice.

Steve is recognized globally as a leading authority on issues related to the formation and operation of both U.S. and international venture capital and private equity funds and other partnership arrangements. He has been named a Super Lawyer and a Chambers & Partners “Band 1” practitioner, with clients and other market observers describing Steve to Chambers over the years as: a “phenomenal” practitioner, a “leading light,” the “heart and soul of the practice” and “without hesitation the premier venture capital fund lawyer and adviser.”

Steve’s practice encompasses both (i) representing a dominant share of the preeminent venture capital funds globally, and (ii) advising promising emerging fund managers in their quest to become the market leaders of the future.

Stanford Law School, J.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, B.S., Accounting Highest Honors