Stewart M. Landefeld - Lawyer in Seattle, WA

Stewart Landefeld, partner and Chair of the firm's Business practice, has 30years of experience counseling companies and boards in the areas of corporategovernance, securities compliance, mergers and acquisitions, public offerings,private equity investments and venture capital. Stewart has provided corporategovernance and other general corporate counsel to dozens of leading companies,including Microsoft Corporation, Costco Wholesale Corporation, T-Mobile,PetSmart Inc., Orbitz (Audit Committee), Aircastle (Independent Directors), F5Networks, Intermec Inc., Outerwall Inc., Cardiac Science Corporation, TheSeattle Mariners, The Tacoma Rainiers (Baseball Club of Tacoma, LLC) and TheSeattle SuperSonics among others. Clients benefit from the valuable insight hegained after serving for nearly a year as interim Chief Legal Officer, interimChief Compliance Officer and then Executive Vice President and General Counselof Washington Mutual Inc. in the months prior to and after FDIC seizure ofWashington Mutual Bank.

A frequently sought-after speaker and authorregarding a variety of corporate governance and other public company issues,Stewart is both the Editor-in-Chief and co-author of The Public CompanyHandbook: A Corporate Governance and Disclosure Guide for Directors andExecutives (Third Edition), published by Bowne. He was recently honored asthe recipient of the Burton Foundation's 2009 Distinguished Law Firm Award forco-authoring the article, «Cost Effective Improvements in Governance: EnhancingCommunications Among Board Committees,» published by the Corporate GovernanceAdvisor. Stewart has also played a significant role in director trainingprograms and had been both the founding organizer and faculty member for theSeattle University Directors Training Academy.

Stewart has beenrecognized every year since 2005 as one of Americas Leading Business Lawyersby Chambers USA. He has also been recognized repeatedly as one of«Washington's Super Lawyers» by Washington Law Politics and isfrequently listed in The Best Lawyers in America, Lawdragon 500's«Leading Lawyers in America,» and Who's Who Legal USA? CorporateGovernance.