Fluckiger, Stephen L.

Current Employment Position(s)

Of Counsel

Lawyer Overview

Steve Fluckiger has been the principal lawyer on more than 175 rounds of private equity, venture-backed, and angel financings aggregating more than $4.3 billion, representing both issuers and institutional, as well as individual investors. For the past several years, Steve has served as principal outside counsel to Maverick Capital on private investment, merger and acquisition, restructuring, and private portfolio company governance matters.

Steve also regularly advises emerging growth and other private and public software, biotech, outsourcing, renewable energy, nanotech, and manufacturing companies in connection with their merger and acquisition, financing, intellectual property licensing, joint venture, distribution and strategic alliance, executive compensation, and corporate governance matters. In addition, he is pro bono counsel to the DFW Cancer Prevention and Research Coalition, the Texas University Network for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and the International Institute of Biomedical Sciences and Technology founded by SUNY Upstate Medical University, the National Cheng Kung University, and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

Steve serves on the advisory boards of the Cecil H. and Ida Green Center for Systems Biology Science at University of Texas Dallas and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He chaired the Dallas Regional Chamber's CEO Lifesciences Roundtable and the Dallas/Fort Worth chapter of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society. Steve is a member of BioDFW and the Sustainable Technologies Committee of the Technology Business Council of the Dallas Regional Chamber and currently serves as vice chair of the Chamber's Life Sciences Council.

Areas of Practice

• Intellectual Property
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Private Equity
• Licensing & Technology Transactions
• M&A
• Life Sciences
• Buyouts
• Fund Formation
• Venture Capital - Investor
• Venture Capital - Issuer

Representative Cases

• Affiliated Computer Services spin-off non-core business, following by IPO
• Agricultural biotechnology company founder relicenses patented inventions
• Apposite Capital invests in Ambrx
• Apposite Capital invests in Ambrx again , (2009)
• Argo Capital forms investment partnership and invests in broadband telecom equipment company
• Argo Capital invests in CognitiveDATA , (2009)
• Argo Capital Partners acquires medical device health care technology business
• Argo Funding forms VC partnership
• Cenlar FSB and Cenlar Capital issue stock and complete debt financing
• Corpus Christi Bancshares acts as counsel to seller in publicly held bank holding company in sale to Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc
• Diversafile sells business
• First Dallas Ventures and Chaparral 2000 invest in business enterprise software company , (2009)
• First Dallas Ventures invests $2 million in internet service provider , (2009)
• First Dallas Ventures invests in business enterprise software company , (2009)
• First Dallas Ventures invests in data compression company
• First Dallas Ventures invests in linux-based hardware and software provider , (2009)
• First Dallas Ventures issues Senior Convertible Notes and bridge note financings in enterprise software company , (2009)
• Freeport-McMoRan Sulphur as counsel to special committee in exchange shares of McMo Ran Exploration Co.
• Gemini Health Technologies issues common stock in secondary offering
• Great Western Industries acquired by John Henry Holdings , (2009)
• Great Western Industries sells converting division
• Heartland Capital invests in ESI Group
• Heartland Capital invests in Loadhandler Industries
• Heartland Capital invests in Peripheral Outlet
• Hemobiotech reincorporates in Delaware in preparation for $4.5 million seed financing , (2009)
• Investor invests in VC limited partnership
• Investor purchases shares in XenoPort
• Investor purchases stock in investment management company
• Investor purchases stock of CABC, Inc.
• Kleiner Perkins, Mohr Davidow, and Alloy Ventures invest in Pacific Biosciences , (2009)
• Linedata negotiates distribution and license agreement with Altaira , (2009)
• Linedata Services acquires portfolio accounting and management solutions assets
• Linedata Services acquires the trade order management business of TenFold, Inc
• Linedata Services forms joint venture with UBS
• Maverick Capital affiliates invest in a communications firm , (2009)
• Maverick Capital affiliates invest in CoreValve , (2009)
• Maverick Capital affiliates invest in OnLive, Inc.
• Maverick Capital affiliates invest in Realtime Worlds , (2009)
• Maverick Capital affiliates invest in Uptake Medical , (2009)
• Maverick Capital affiliates invest in Youku.com , (2009)
• Maverick Capital affiliates re-invest in Nodality
• Maverick Capital affiliates re-invest in Xoft , (2009)
• Maverick Capital affiliates re-invests in Youku.com
• Maverick Capital completes a registered direct offering for $40 million of Common Stock and Warrants by Xenoport , (2009)
• Maverick Capital invests in Cardiovascular Systems
• Maverick Capital invests in Fresh Direct Holdings
• Maverick Capital invests in Microbia
• Maverick Capital invests in Nodality , (2009)
• Maverick Capital re-invests in Perputo
• Maverick Capital sells CoreValve shares in acquisition by Medtronic
• Maverick funds invest in Ambrx
• Maverick funds invest in Corcept Therapeutics
• Maverick funds invest in Curis
• Maverick funds invest in GeneSoft Pharmaceuticals
• Maverick funds invest in Genome Therapeutics' acquisition of Genesoft
• Maverick funds invest in internet security portfolio company
• Maverick funds invest in Metabasis Therapeutics
• Maverick funds invest in Mixed Signals
• Maverick funds invest in Perlegen $100 million Series C round
• Maverick funds invest in Perlegen Sciences
• Maverick funds invest in Perlegen Sciences $40 million Series C round
• Maverick funds invest in software provider
• Maverick funds invest in Xoft
• Mindfabric completes private equity and bridge note financings
• Nanotechnology company exclusively licenses patents in exchange for royalties and equity , (2009)
• Neon Systems acquires software company
• Nonprofit organizations form spinoff companies
• ODC Therapy raises $4 million in private placement to Baylor Health
• ODC Therapy, Inc. forms start-up from Baylor Health
• PeerLogic merges with Critical Path
• PHNS negotiates agreement with Detroit Medical Center to outsource health information management and related services
• Pillowtex acquires Fieldcrest Cannon , (2009)
• Private investment funds invest in Affinity Media , (2009)
• Private investment funds invest in Disc Dynamics , (2009)
• Private telecom equipment company issues Series F stock
• Provider HealthNet Services acquires MedGrup Corp.
• Registered investment advisor invests in MitralSolutions , (2009)
• TissueGen forms joint ventures with Endovasc
• TSO sells substantially all assets to America's Best Contacts and Eyeglasses , (2009)
• Undisclosed investor completes $13 million exchange offer of Convertible Notes by Oscient Pharmaceuticals , (2009)
• Undisclosed investor invests in Synta Pharmaceuticals
• Verity Instruments acquires IP for semiconductor manufacturing
• Virbac acquires publicly held animal pharmaceutical company
• Virbac completes $3 million self-tender offer , (2009)

West Practice Categories

Banking & Finance Law, Business & Commercial Law, Business Organizations, Business Successions, Closely Held Businesses, Copyrights, Corporate Governance, Directors' & Officers' Liability, Dissolution, Formation & Business Planning, Franchising, Intellectual Property Law, International Intellectual Property, Joint Ventures, Lending & Secured Transactions, Limited Liability Companies, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Non-profit & Tax-exempt Organizations, Partnerships, Patents, Reorganizations, Shareholders' Rights, Technology Licensing, Trade Associations, Trade Dress, Trade Secrets, Trademarks, Venture Capital

Bar Admissions

• Texas

Education

• Brigham Young University
• Princeton University

Published Works

• Economic Development and Commercialization Subcommittee, Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, Comments on Intellectual Property Standards and Protection of Confidential Information, 2009
• Current Trends in Life Science Investing, Jones Day Technology Transactions Mid-Year 2003 Newsletter, 2003
• Biotech Business is Building in Dallas, Dallas-Fort Worth TechBiz, 2001
• Over-the-Counter Debt Offerings Raise Capital, Outlook of the Federal Home Loan Bank System, 1998
• The Mexican Banking Crisis: Remedies and Opportunities, Consumer Finance Law Quarter Report, 1998
• New Risk-Based Capital Measures Mark Shift Toward Reliance on Self-Assessment, Bank Accounting & Finance, 1995
• How S&L's Can Use Over-the-Counter Offerings, American Banker, 1987
• The Changing Relationship of the Judiciary to the Policy and Administrative Processes of Governments, B.Y.U. Law Review, 1985

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