Fogarty, James R.

Steve Fluckiger has been the principal lawyer on more than 175 rounds of private equity, venture-backed, and angel financings aggregating more than $4.3 billion, representing both issuers and institutional, as well as individual investors. For the past several years, Steve has served as principal outside counsel to Maverick Capital on private investment, merger and acquisition, restructuring, and private portfolio company governance matters.

Steve also regularly advises emerging growth and other private and public software, biotech, outsourcing, renewable energy, nanotech, and manufacturing companies in connection with their merger and acquisition, financing, intellectual property licensing, joint venture, distribution and strategic alliance, executive compensation, and corporate governance matters. In addition, he is pro bono counsel to the DFW Cancer Prevention and Research Coalition, the Texas University Network for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and the International Institute of Biomedical Sciences and Technology founded by SUNY Upstate Medical University, the National Cheng Kung University, and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

Steve serves on the advisory boards of the Cecil H. and Ida Green Center for Systems Biology Science at University of Texas Dallas and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He chaired the Dallas Regional Chamber's CEO Lifesciences Roundtable and the Dallas/Fort Worth chapter of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society. Steve is a member of BioDFW and the Sustainable Technologies Committee of the Technology Business Council of the Dallas Regional Chamber and currently serves as vice chair of the Chamber's Life Sciences Council.