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 expertise and deep experience include 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. His clients include middle market and early-stage technology, manufacturing and service businesses, investment funds, entrepreneurs, and investors.

With a law degree from the University of Pittsburgh and an M.B.A. in industrial administration from Carnegie Mellon University, Mr. Fox has been appointed to several prestigious positions. He is vice chairman of MIT Enterprise Forum of Pittsburgh; past director of the Association for Corporate Growth; past member of the Carnegie Mellon University Board of Trustees and past president and executive committee member of the university’s Andrew Carnegie Society; past chairman of the Intellectual Property Section and Antitrust and Class Action Committee of the Allegheny County Bar Association; and past member of the Governing Board, Corporation, Commercial and Banking Law Section of the Allegheny County Bar Association. He is a member of the Pittsburgh Venture Capital Association, Association for Corporate Growth, Turnaround Management Association, various sections of the American, Pennsylvania and Allegheny County Bar Associations, and Carnegie Mellon Tepper School Alumni Committee and Andrew Carnegie Society. Mr. Fox was an adjunct faculty member in the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Business. He is also a frequent speaker and guest lecturer.

Mr. Fox and his wife Gerry live in Pittsburgh and have a son, Tad, and daughter, Amanda.