Attorney Profile
Michael D. Fox
Education: B.S.I.M. Carnegie Mellon University; MSIA (MBA) Graduate School of Industrial Administration (now the Tepper School) Carnegie Mellon University; JD, Magna Cum Laude, Order of the Coif; University of Pittsburgh School of Law.
Admissions: Pennsylvania Bar.
Practice Areas: Business Development and Venture Financing; Mergers, Acquisitions, Dispositions and Joint Ventures; Business Workouts; Technology Development, Licensing and Commercialization; Products and Service Distribution and Franchising; and International, Computer and Corporate Law.
Michael D. Fox is a shareholder with the Pittsburgh office of Strassburger McKenna Gutnick & Gefsky, where he concentrates his practice in business law. He joined the firm in 2008 in the combination with Gefsky and Lehman, P.C.
Mr. Fox’s broad practice experience includes business development and venture financing; mergers, acquisitions, dispositions and joint ventures; business workouts; technology development, licensing and commercialization; product and service distribution and franchising; and international, computer and corporate law.
His clients include middle market and early-stage technology, manufacturing and service businesses, investment funds, entrepreneurs, and investors.
Mr. Fox for many years has held the highest rating for lawyers by Martindale Hubbell, a national register for attorneys, recognizing his professional standards and ethics as well as his legal ability.
Previously he was a shareholder of a large Pittsburgh based law firm and a member of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation's General Counsel's staff.
Professional
Mr. Fox holds a law degree from the University of Pittsburgh and an M.B.A. from Carnegie Mellon University. He has held Board and officers positions with the MIT Enterprise Forum of Pittsburgh, Tepper Business School Alumni Association; Association for Corporate Growth; Carnegie Mellon University's Board of Trustees and Andrew Carnegie Society; and the Intellectual Property, the Antitrust and Class Action, and the Corporation, Commercial and Banking Law Sections of the Allegheny County Bar Association.
He is a member of the Pittsburgh Venture Capital Association, Association for Corporate Growth, Turnaround Management Association, and various sections of the American, Pennsylvania and Allegheny County Bar Associations.
He is a frequent speaker and guest lecturer on a variety of legal and business topics, and regularly appears on the American Entrepreneur radio program.
Personal
Mr. Fox and his wife Gerry live in Pittsburgh and have a son, Tad, and daughter, Amanda.
