Stephen J. Dutton is a partner of Barnes & Thornburg LLP, resident in the Indianapolis, Indiana office, where he is a member of the Corporate Department and co-chair of the firm's Renewable Energy Practice Group. He concentrates his practice on corporate matters. His practice includes public and private company acquisitions, tender offers and public and private offerings of equity and debt. He represents a number of software and other high technology companies and counsels them and other business clients on a broad range of legal issues that affect their business and operations, including information technology issues. He was selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2013 in the fields of corporate governance and compliance law, corporate law, and information technology law.
Mr. Dutton received a B.S. from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago in 1965. He received his J.D. magna cum laude from Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis in 1969. He joined Barnes & Thornburg as a partner in 2003. Mr. Dutton is admitted to practice in the state of Indiana.
Mr. Dutton is a past chair of TechPoint, the voice for Indiana’s technology community, and continues to serve as a director. He is also a director and secretary of the Greater Indianapolis Foreign Trade Zone, Inc., and a director of TechPoint Foundation.