Mr. Steele is a member of the Emerging Growth practice group and represents emerging growth technology companies, venture capital firms and private equity firms. Mr. Steele represents emerging growth companies from their formation to exit, venture capital funds in their portfolio investments and private equity firms in their portfolio investments and exits. Mr. Steele’s practice involves the representation of clients with respect to joint ventures and other strategic collaborations, licenses and other intellectual property agreements as well as mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Steele also has substantial experience with venture capital investments and represents both companies receiving venture capital financing as well as venture capital firms in their investments. Mr. Steele’s practice includes clients and transactions on each of the East and West Coasts as well as the Intermountain West.

Before joining Holland & Hart, Mr. Steele was a member at Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton PC, where he helped found the firm’s Salt Lake City office. Prior to that, he was with Bingham Dana, LLP, in Boston.