Stephen M. Graham — Co-Chairman of Life Sciences Group and Partner at Fenwick & West

Mr. Stephen M. Graham serves as Co-Chairman of Life Sciences Practice and Partner of Fenwick & West, LLP. Mr. Graham serves as the Managing Partner of Fenwick & West's Seattle office. He serves as Partner of Pacific Northwest Office at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe. Mr. Graham focuses his practice in the areas of private and public mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, private placements, and general corporate matters, including advising boards of directors, audit, compensation and nominating/corporate governance committees, preparation and filing of periodic SEC reports and other securities law compliance, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and disclosure issues with respect to Rule 10b-5 and Regulation FD. His diverse practice is focused on the representation of emerging and established high growth companies. Mr. Graham has represented companies and investment banks in numerous initial public offerings, a wide variety of merger and acquisition transactions and private offerings of debt and equity. Prior to Fenwick & West, Mr. Graham served as a Corporate Partner of Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, L.L.P., where he was the Chair of the global Corporate Practice Group. He Co-Chair of the Life Sciences Group. Mr. Graham serves as a Co-chair of Advisory committee on small and emerging companies at U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. He serves as a Member of the Board of Ambassadors and Trustee at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. He serves as a Director of Institute for Systems Biology. Mr. Graham is active in community affairs, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Washington Biotechnology and Biomedical Association, the Board of Directors of the Friends of the Children of King County. Mr. Graham has been recognized by Chambers USA as one of the top corporate and mergers and acquisitions lawyers in Washington. He is also a 'Super Lawyer' award recipient, 2000 - 2008, was ranked as one of the Top 100 Super Lawyers in 2005 by Washington Law & Politics, received the Top Lawyers award from Seattle Magazine in 2003, is listed in Who's Who in America by Marquis Biographical Reference, and is a Member of Pi Sigma Alpha. He is a Practice Member of the State Bar of Washington. Mr. Graham holds J.D. from Yale Law School in 1976 and B.S. from Iowa State University in 1973.