Stewart Landefeld

Stewart Landefeld, partner and Chair of the firm's Business practice, has 30 years of experience counseling companies and boards in the areas of corporate governance, securities compliance, mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, private equity investments and venture capital. Stewart has provided corporate governance and other general corporate counsel to dozens of leading companies, including Microsoft Corporation, Costco Wholesale Corporation, AT&T Wireless, Starbucks Corporation, Washington Mutual Inc., Ragen Mackenzie Group Inc., PetSmart Inc., Outerwall Inc., Cardiac Science Corporation, Intermec, Inc., Fisher Broadcasting Company, Aircastle Ltd., the Seattle Mariners, the Seattle SuperSonics, the Tacoma Rainiers (Baseball Club of Tacoma, LLC), F5 Networks Inc. and Seattle Bank among others. Clients benefit from the valuable insight he gained after serving for nearly a year as interim Chief Legal Officer, interim Chief Compliance Officer and then Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Washington Mutual Inc. in the months prior to and after FDIC seizure of Washington Mutual Bank. Plymouth Housing Group, Vice-President, Co-Chair, Capital Campaign Seattle Art Museum, Chair, Audit Committee, Secretary Seattle Foundation, Past Chairman of Board of Trustees Seattle Symphony Foundation, Former Vice President, Board of Trustees Henry Art Gallery, Past Chairman of Board of Trustees Pike Place Market Preservation and Development Authority, Past Council Chair Yale Capital Campaign Committee The University of Chicago Law School, J.D., 1980 Yale University, B.A., 1976