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Practice Focus
Peter regularly represents start-up, growth/emerging, closely-held, family-owned and non-profit companies; business owners; medical groups and long-term and specialty care facilities. Since joining Sheehan Phinney in 1984, he has counseled a broad array of clients in connection with organizational, succession, tax and business planning, and governance issues, and handles debt and equity financings, commercial ventures, contract matters, buy-in/buy-outs, mergers and acquisitions and regulatory matters.
- Represented insurance company in various governance and strategic planning initiatives, including implementation of diversification strategies.
- Represented a closely-held distribution company in an asset sale transaction to an out-of-state public company, including post-closing transition issues.
- Represented technology company in growth acquisitions, international distribution and regulatory compliance.
- Represented insurance company in various governance and strategic planning initiatives, including implementation of diversification strategies.
- Represented a closely-held distribution company in an asset sale transaction to an out-of-state public company, including post-closing transition issues.
- Represented technology company in growth acquisitions, international distribution and regulatory compliance.
- Represented foreign interests in the establishment of US distributors and affiliates.
- Represented different physician practices in sales to hospital systems and in mergers with competing medical groups, including the required governmental filings and integration of practices.
- Represented a family-owned business with various governance, growth, buy-out and generational transition matters.
Education
B.S., magna cum laude, University of New Hampshire
LL.M., in Taxation, Boston University
J.D., Washington and Lee University
Honors
He was named as one of the Best Lawyers in America by Woodward White and listed in Chambers USA, both for corporate law. He was also named a New England Super Lawyer in the area of business and corporate law.
Memberships and Admissions
Peter is a member of the New Hampshire Bar Association and participates in that organization’s Corporate, Banking and Business Law Section and its Health Law Section. He is admitted to practice in New Hampshire.
Community Involvement
Peter’s involvement in community activities is extensive. He serves on the Hillcrest Manor, Inc. (Birch Hill Terrace) Board of Trustees. In 2011 Peter was appointed by the Governor to serve on the State’s Economic Strategic Commission. He is the past Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Capitol Center for the Arts; the former Chair of the New Hampshire Bar Association’s Corporate, Banking and Business Law Section; and a former Secretary and Director of the New Hampshire International Trade Association. He also has served as a member of Congressman John Sununu’s Small Business Advisory Group, on the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce’s Small Business Committee, and on the Tax Base Expansion Task Force of the Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce. In addition, Peter is a former president of the Manchester Rotary Club and was named a Paul Harris Fellow by that organization in 1997.
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