Stephen Davis
Partner & Co-Chair Corporate/VLG, Heller Ehrman Venture Law Group

Stephen M. Davis, Chair of the New York Business Practice and Co-Chair of the Venture Law Group, joined Heller Ehrman in 1999 and has a practice emphasizing corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, corporate Board counseling and corporate governance.

Mr. Davis has extensive experience in several areas of corporate practice with a focus on venture capital, corporate finance and securities, mergers and acquisitions and private equity. He has represented clients in transactions ranging from start-up financings to billion-dollar-plus transactions and has counseled companies in diverse industries such as software, Internet infrastructure, applications and services, telecommunications, wireless technologies, biotech, medical devices, environmental and energy, manufacturing, and investment management. Mr. Davis has represented issuers and underwriters in numerous initial public offerings, secondary offerings, PIPEs offerings, spin-off transactions, joint ventures and other strategic alliances and mergers and acquisitions and acts as outside general counsel and Board advisor to several public and private companies. Mr. Davis is a frequent speaker and panelist at industry and legal conferences, has written articles for publications and is often quoted in business publications.