Practice Areas
Stephen Ritchie focuses on complex business transactions, with a particular emphasis on structuring, negotiating and managing the legal aspects of mergers, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, venture capital and growth equity investments, restructurings and workouts. He has handled private equity, LBO, growth equity, and merger and acquisition transactions for clients including GTCR, TCV, Chicago Growth Partners, Evergreen Pacific Partners, Wind Point Partners, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, Public Sector Pension Plan, Solera Holdings and their respective portfolio companies. He has served as a member of the Firm’s global executive management committee. In addition, Stephen serves as a lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School and Booth School of Business, teaching classes on structuring, documenting and negotiating private equity transactions.
Personal
University of Virginia, B.A., 1985; University of Chicago, J.D., 1988.