Stephanie Coutu Bio

Stephanie Coutu is co-head of the Emerging Companies and Venture Capital group. Her practice focuses on venture capital, financings, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and technology transactions. Ms. Coutu has worked with start-up companies and established businesses in a variety of industries, with an emphasis on the Internet and technology sector, life sciences, food and wine related companies, and consumer products. She has advised clients in connection with equity and debt securities offerings, acquisitions, venture capital, corporate reorganizations, licensing, and commercial transactions, joint ventures, employee compensation (including stock arrangements), intellectual property issues, sweepstakes and contests, and general corporate matters. While at Boston University School of Law, she was an Editor of Boston University Law Review. Ms. Coutu has lectured on venture financing and startup issues in various programs such as the Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs (SVASE) program "step by step process of raising equity from a VC Firm and how to build successful relationships with VC's," the West LegalEd Center and The Daily Journal's Corporate program on "Venture Capital Backed Businesses: The Special Case of Investor Dominated Boards," and the Neuro Startup Challenge.