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Practice Focus
Alex is a corporate lawyer with extensive experience representing established and emerging businesses in commercial and strategic transactions. His practice includes representation of companies, as well as their founders, investors and executives. Alex has particular expertise in representing software, communications, consulting, life science and other technology-based businesses, both public and private, and also advises more traditional business enterprises.
Among the types of matters that Alex handles are financings, including seed capital, angel and venture capital investments, and secured and unsecured loans; development and distribution arrangements, including inbound and outbound technology licensing, SaaS agreements, distribution and sales agreements and technology development agreements; mergers and acquisitions, including stock and asset acquisitions and purchases and divestitures of business units; securities law compliance; and structuring and formation of new business ventures.
Alex also assists clients with general business matters, including employment agreements, executive compensation, equity incentive arrangements, joint ventures, restructurings and commercial contracts.
Alex is a co-author of the book Raising Capital for the Emerging Business.
Before joining Sheehan Phinney, Alex was a partner at Foley Hoag LLP, and served as General Counsel of Lightbridge, Inc., a publicly traded software and service company.
- Serves as outside general counsel to numerous venture and angel backed technology companies.
- Represented leading provider of online resident screening services in its merger with a major provider of software solutions to the multifamily industry.
- Advised developer of eBook technology for the educational market in financing transactions, equity compensation matters and sale to leading textbook distributor.
- Serves as outside general counsel to numerous venture and angel backed technology companies.
- Represented leading provider of online resident screening services in its merger with a major provider of software solutions to the multifamily industry.
- Advised developer of eBook technology for the educational market in financing transactions, equity compensation matters and sale to leading textbook distributor.
- Served as U.S. counsel to publicly traded Canadian communications equipment company in connection with multiple acquisitions of U.S. companies totaling over $35 million and private placements of securities to U.S. investors.
- Represented internet company in connection with strategic acquisition of key competitor and related debt and equity financings.
- Advised French interactive media company in connection with acquisition of business unit from major U.S. media company.
- Represented stockholders of government contracting firm in connection with an acquisition of the firm for more than $25 million.
- Represented national franchising business in connection with Series B Financing.
- Represented a major educational institution in various licensing and transactional matters.
- Represented a private investor group in numerous acquisitions and dispositions of businesses totaling over $18 million, including a television station, photography companies and consulting firms.
- Represented an emerging-technology consulting company in equity financings and the formation of spin-off companies.
Education
B.A., Wesleyan University
M.F.A., University of Southern California
J.D., cum laude, Harvard Law School
Memberships and Admissions
Alex is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. He is a member of both the Boston and New Hampshire Bar Associations.
Community Involvement
Alex is actively involved in entrepreneurial organizations throughout Massachusetts. He serves on the board of directors of The ICA Group, Inc., a nonprofit provider of employee ownership, business development and job retention services, and its affiliate, Local Enterprise Assistance Fund, Inc., which invests in worker-owned and community based businesses. In addition, he has served as a judge for the Harvard Business School’s Business Plan Competition and is active with Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc.
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