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Practice Focus
Alex serves as head of the firm's Boston office. He 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 venture capital and angel 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, restructurings and purchases and divestitures of business units; securities law compliance; and structuring and initial capitalization of new business ventures.
Alex also assists clients with general business matters, including employment agreements, executive compensation, equity incentive arrangements, restructurings and commercial contracts.
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.
- 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.
- Serves as outside general counsel to numerous venture and angel backed technology companies.
- 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.
- Represented a Canadian software company in raising over $35 million in venture capital, and in effecting acquisitions and restructuring.
- Represented a publicly-traded software company in $82 million acquisition and $165 million merger.
- Represented a medical device company in $95 million public offering.
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 is a member of the Boston Bar Association.
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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