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Stephanie Coutu is a director in the firm’s Business Department and Co-Chair of the Emerging Companies & Venture Capital Practice Group. Her practice focuses on the representation of emerging growth companies, venture capital, mergers and acquisitions and intellectual property transactions.

Ms. Coutu has worked with start-ups and established businesses in a variety of industries, with an emphasis on the Internet and technology sectors. She has advised clients in connection with equity and debt securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, corporate reorganizations, licensing transactions, joint ventures, employee compensation (including stock arrangements), intellectual property issues and general corporate matters. Ms. Coutu joined the firm after practicing business and real estate law for two years at Choate, Hall & Stewart in Boston.

Ms. Coutu has served on the firm’s Recruiting Committee, the firm’s Summer Committee and as an associate representative on the Management Committee.

Education

  • J.D., Boston University School of Law (cum laude; Editor, Boston University Law Review), 1997
  • B.A., University of California, Los Angeles (Psi Chi Honor Society),1993

Admitted

  • California
  • Massachusetts

Memberships

  • State Bar of California
  • Massachusetts Bar Association 
  • American Bar Association
  • Bar Association of San Francisco
  • Breast Cancer Fund, Board of Directors
  • Queen's Bench, Business Development Committee