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Awards · July 4, 2026

Steve Schwab Named to Counsel Collective's 2026 Leaders to Watch List

Forty names shaping the legal architecture of private capital

Steven Schwab headshot

Steve Schwab, managing director, general counsel and chief compliance officer at Thoma Bravo, was named to Counsel Collective's second edition of Leaders to Watch in Private Equity, Venture Capital & Finance.

Private capital runs on legal talent — the lawyers who structure the funds, close the deals and hold the guardrails as the industry scales. This edition recognizes both sides of that coin: twenty in-house legal chiefs who lead law, compliance and governance from inside the firms, and twenty private-practice partners who shape the funds and transactions that define the market.

View the full list here.


This list is the opinion of the party conferring the list and should not be considered an endorsement of Thoma Bravo. Issued by Counsel Collective on July 4, 2026, Leaders to Watch was based on the honorees' overall professional body of work and public contributions to date. There can be no assurance that other providers or surveys would utilize the same criteria used to determine this list or reach the same conclusion.