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Steven H. Shapiro, JD

Steven H. Shapiro is the leader of the Corporate Group at DUGGAN BERTSCH.  He is an award-winning former General Counsel, a nationally recognized speaker on corporate and technology topics and a highly accomplished transactional lawyer.  Steve has completed numerous M&A transactions in a variety of industries.   He also has successfully completed dozens of complex securities offerings, bank financings and venture capital fundings, representing underwriters and issuers, lenders and borrowers and funds and start-up companies.

Steve also has extensive experience in technology contracting and related transactions, such as software licenses, SaaS agreements, cloud services agreements, technology equipment sales and purchase, terms of services, privacy policies and technology consulting agreements.  In performing this work, he has served as counsel to technology vendors as well as to purchasers and licensors of technology and technology consulting.

Steve graduated Columbia University cum laude and with awards for service to the academic community as well as the University of Chicago Law School.  A native New Yorker, Steve has lived in the Chicago area since graduating law school.  

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