Steve Pfeiffer, a partner since 1983, practices in Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.'s Washington, D.C., office and began a second four-year term as Chair of the Executive Committee of the firm in January 2007. He previously served as the Partner-in-Charge of the Washington, D.C. and London offices and as the head of the firm's International Department. Before joining the firm's Washington office in 1986, he resided in the firm's London office. He went to London as an associate in 1979 after two and a half years in the Houston office.

During his over seven years in London, Mr. Pfeiffer had principal responsibility for a wide variety of corporate and commercial transactions involving United Kingdom, European, Middle East and Africa-based banks, corporations and individuals investing in the United States. His practice often involved representation of U.K. financial institutions raising capital for U.S. investments, particularly in the energy industry.

Mr. Pfeiffer has also been the partner responsible for the firm's advice to U.S. clients acquiring stock or assets, or entering joint venture or other contractual relationships, in the U.K., Europe, the Middle East and Africa. These projects involved coordinating the U.S. and non-U.S. corporate, commercial, securities, tax and other legal and regulatory issues affecting such transactions. Mr. Pfeiffer also has had responsibility for Fulbright & Jaworski's representation of certain sovereign entities, including departments of the U.K. government and sovereign states in Africa.

From 1992 to 1994, Mr. Pfeiffer was chairman of the Section on Energy and Natural Resources Law of the International Bar Association, the largest international group of lawyers in private and corporate practice. He served as senior vice chairman of the Section from 1990 to 1992. In 1976, Mr. Pfeiffer was elected by the alumni of Wesleyan University in Connecticut to serve as a member of its Board of Trustees and served as Chairman of the Board from 1987 to 1992. He is currently Chairman Emeritus of Wesleyan. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and the International Institute of Strategic Studies in London. Mr. Pfeiffer was Secretary to the Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee for Maryland/DC from 1993 to 2001 and served on the Selection Committee for the state of Montana from 2002 to 2004. He serves as a director of Barloworld Limited (a publicly owned company based in South Africa).  Mr. Pfeiffer is also a trustee of The Africa-America Institute in New York and Project HOPE in Washington, D.C., two non-profit organizations. He is a member of the State Bar of New Jersey, the District of Columbia Bar and the American Bar Association.

Mr. Pfeiffer is included in Who's Who in America.

Mr. Pfeiffer received a B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1969. He then studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, completing a B.A. and M.A. in Jurisprudence at Oxford and M.A. in Area Studies (Africa) at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London. During this time, he traveled widely in Europe, the Middle East and Africa on a Thomas J. Watson Foundation Travel Fellowship for which he was selected in 1969. Mr. Pfeiffer returned to the United States for active service as an officer in the United States Navy in 1972 and served as Assistant CINCEUR and NATO Plans Officer in the Strategic Plans and Policy Division of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations and, later, as Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Navy. He retired from the United States Naval Reserve as a Commander in 1991. Mr. Pfeiffer earned a J.D. in 1976 from Yale University and was admitted to practice in New Jersey in 1976 and in the District of Columbia in 1978.