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Corporate/Commercial (Band 1)Profile
Practice Areas: Stewart Landefeld, Chair of Perkins Coie’s Business Practice, has over 30 years of experience counseling companies and boards in corporate governance, public company matters, mergers and acquisitions, public offerings and private equity. Having been counsel to the Audit Committee, he served during 2007-2008 variously as interim Chief Legal Officer, Chief Compliance Officer and Executive Vice President of Washington Mutual, Inc. until the FDIC seizure of Washington Mutual. He is the co-author of The Public Company Handbook: A Corporate Governance Guide for Directors and Executives, Washington Business Entities, and many articles on corporate governance.