Stephen Ratner Stephen Ratner is a commercial, privacy, and product attorney who advises AI and SaaS companies on enterprise contracting, data use, technology transactions, and operational legal strategy. He has served as in-house counsel at leading AI-video SaaS and adtech companies, where he negotiated complex commercial and data agreements and partnered with product and technical teams on generative-AI, model-training, and privacy issues. Stephen also has product-management experience building legal-technology tools and AI-agent workflows, and previously practiced emerging-companies and venture-fund law at Gunderson Dettmer. Before law school, he served as Deputy Press Secretary to the Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice and interned at the White House.

Stephen Ratner

Sr. Counsel and Forward-Deployed Attorney

Stephen Ratner is a commercial, privacy, and product attorney who advises AI and SaaS companies on enterprise contracting, data use, technology transactions, and operational legal strategy. He has served as in-house counsel at leading AI-video SaaS and adtech companies, where he negotiated complex commercial and data agreements and partnered with product and technical teams on generative-AI, model-training, and privacy issues. Stephen also has product-management experience building legal-technology tools and AI-agent workflows, and previously practiced emerging-companies and venture-fund law at Gunderson Dettmer. Before law school, he served as Deputy Press Secretary to the Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice and interned at the White House.

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Practice Areas
Blockchain and Cryptocurrency
Data Privacy
Emerging Companies and Venture Capital
Financial Regulatory
Technology Transactions
Employment
Education

Georgetown University Law, CenterJD

Notable Experience

Remote.com
Synthesia
U.S. Department of Justice
The White House

Jurisdictions

New York
Arizona