Steven Franklin

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