CHOATE - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Co - Chair - Government Enforcement & Compliance
- Co - Chair of Choate 's Government Enforcement & Compliance Group
- Speaking on Cybersecurity at New England Corporate Counsel Association
Adam Bookbinder, co-chair of Choate's Government Enforcement & Compliance Group, is an experienced trial attorney and former Assistant U.S. Attorney who helps clients effectively address and mitigate a wide range of high-level enterprise risks. Having tried more than 25 jury trials to verdict, he is equally comfortable litigating in federal and state court, guiding clients through government investigations, and advising on cybersecurity, data privacy and cyber incident response.
In white collar defense and internal and government investigations, Adam represents institutional clients, charged defendants, potential criminal targets and witnesses in federal and state investigations and prosecutions around the country. He represents corporations and individuals in wire fraud, securities fraud, money laundering, healthcare, theft of trade secret, computer network intrusion, environmental crime, and criminal tax prosecutions and investigations. He has also briefed and argued dozens of appeals in state and federal courts of appeal.
Adam advises clients on a wide range of cybersecurity and data privacy issues. He counsels clients on responding to cybersecurity incidents, conducting internal investigations and cybersecurity reviews, preparing incident response plans, complying with data privacy laws, interfacing with law enforcement agencies and increasing preparedness. He also defends clients in class action data privacy and data misuse litigation.
Adam served 18 years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts. He was chief of the U.S. Attorney's Office's Cybercrime Unit, where he supervised a unit responsible for the investigation and prosecution of computer and intellectual property crime, including computer intrusions, data breaches, network attacks, theft of trade secrets, copyright and trademark infringement, and online fraud. In this role, Adam worked with the FBI, Secret Service and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to identify and respond to priority cybercrime threats. He was also chosen as the U.S. Attorney's Office's National Security Cyber Specialist, investigating cybercrime committed by nation-states and hackers affiliated with foreign terrorist organizations, and serving as the U.S. Attorney's Office liaison to the U.S. Department of Justice's National Security Division for cyber matters.
Adam also served in the office's Economic Crimes Unit, and he led financial fraud, securities fraud and healthcare fraud investigations, prosecutions and trials throughout his tenure in the office. Before joining the U.S. Attorney's Office, Adam was an Assistant District Attorney in the Essex County District Attorney's Office in Massachusetts and a law clerk for the Honorable Stephen Trott, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Adam Bookbinder, co-chair of Choate's Government Enforcement & Compliance practice, will speak at the Boston Bar Association (BBA) Privacy, Cybersecurity and Digital Law Conference on Thursday, January 25, 2024 at 1:00 p.m.
Adam Bookbinder, co-chair of Choate's Government Enforcement & Compliance Group, has been quoted in the article "Mass. officials defend emergency police use of tollbooth camera info," published by MassLive Media.
Adam Bookbinder will be speaking on cybersecurity issues for in-house counsel at the New England Corporate Counsel Association (NECCA). The program, "You Can Go To Jail For That? Cybersecurity, Data Breaches & Potential Personal Liability of In-House Counsel," will take place on Wednesday, June 7th from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Adam Zaiger helps sophisticated developers, investors, lenders, governmental authorities, and private institutions successfully navigate their acquisitions, dispositions, development, leasing, and financing transactions. With over 30 years of experience in the real estate industry, Adam represents clients across virtually all asset classes, including large-scale commercial/industrial complexes, distribution facilities, data centers, research and laboratory facilities, corporate headquarters for Fortune 500 companies, major suburban shopping centers, as well as specialty asset classes including hospitality, professional sports facilities, and self-storage complexes. His practice also involves major urban developments and high-rise office/Class A retail leasing both in the City of Boston and on a worldwide basis.
Adam also frequently represents Choate's private equity clients in connection with their mergers and acquisitions and assists Choate's high net worth clients with their real estate investment needs. His clients include Bain Capital, PTC, JPMorgan, Arbor Financial, Jones Lang LaSalle, and Tribeca Holdings.
Job Titles:
- Chairman - Labor & Employment
Alison Reif provides practical and efficient business-oriented counseling and advice on managing all aspects of a company's relationship with its employees. This includes providing counsel on hiring and employment agreements, terminations and RIFs, disability and leave issues, wage and hour compliance and audits, harassment investigations, employment and severance agreements, employee handbooks and policies, non-competition, and other post-employment restrictions, independent contractor arrangements, employee classifications, and virtually all other issues facing modern employers.
A seasoned negotiator, Alison specializes in finding workable, real world solutions to accomplish business objectives, avoid legal liability, and remain consistent with a company's culture. She has a nationwide practice, with a sweet spot of mid-sized companies. She is routinely called on to advise international companies, particularly in the United Kingdom and Canada, who are starting operations in the United States and require assistance in navigating local labor laws. She also serves as counsel to a number of independent schools in the New England area.
Alison has successfully represented companies in more than fifty lawsuits brought by their employees, involving a wide variety of claims.
Alison is a member of Choate's Executive Committee.
Alyson Stewart represents borrowers in finance transactions. She works with private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, private and public companies, and financial institutions, advising them on term loans, cash flow and asset-based revolvers, first and second lien financings, mezzanine financings, bridge loans, and public and private notes offerings.
Andrew Norkiewicz represents private equity funds and their portfolio companies in a range of transactions including mergers and acquisitions, equity investments, strategic transactions, and general corporate matters. Andrew has particular experience in cross-border transactions involving the UK, having been seconded to Travers Smith in London in 2023.
Andrew Erdmann's technical skills, practical approach to solving complex problems, and collaborative attitude has made him a valuable resource for clients. He represents companies in private equity and M&A transactions, including purchases and sales of private businesses, public company mergers and tender offers, formations and dispositions of joint ventures, and other strategic investments. He also provides general legal counsel to clients on corporate governance, securities, corporate finance and legal compliance issues.
Andrew has experience working in a variety of industries, including software, technology, professional services, consumer products, life sciences, healthcare, media, and energy and has led and worked on deals ranging from several million to several billion dollars in value.
Job Titles:
- Co - Chair - IP Litigation
- Co - Chair of Choate 's IP Litigation Group
- Co - Chair of Intellectual Property Litigation
Anita Spieth, co-chair of Choate's IP Litigation Group, has more than 10 years of experience representing life sciences and technology companies in high stakes patent infringement, trade secrets, and other complex IP litigation. She provides an effective and user-friendly case management approach and counsels clients on litigation strategy to achieve their goals. She also represents clients in connection with inter partes review proceedings before the USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board, as well as in copyright issues (particularly related to software and artificial intelligence) and trade secret disputes.
Anita makes her clients' lives easier by taking tasks off of their plates and making their worries her own. She begins her work by gaining a thorough understanding of the internal workflow of her clients so that her work product is immediately useful and does not require additional cycles. She speaks in clear and plain terms that clients and - importantly - judges and juries can understand.
Anita has developed a global strategy to help clients manage risk and protect US intellectual property while related cases proceed internationally, including directing EPO strategy and various litigations throughout the world. Anita's team at Choate has experience mustering and managing various international law firms to ensure that international positions are consistent with those taken in the U.S.
Anita's clients include Takeda, Biogen, EMC/Dell, Alarm.com, and Pegasystems.
Anita Spieth will be a panelist at the ACI's 9th Annual Paragraph IV Disputes Master Symposium on Tuesday, October 24th discussing, "Patents, Drug Pricing, and Price Controls: Understanding the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) Will Impact The Value of Pharmaceutical IP."
Anita Spieth will moderate a panel on the current state of biosimilar litigation at the 2022 BIO Intellectual Property Counsels Committee Conference on Tuesday, November 15th at 9:00 a.m.
Anita Spieth joins Eric Marandett and Michael Bunis leading Choate's Intellectual Property Litigation practice, overseeing the group's growth strategy, client experience, and talent development initiatives.
While in law school, Aspen served as a corporate counsel extern for RA Capital Management LP and as a family law intern for Greater Boston Legal Services. Prior to law school, she worked for several software companies.
Benjamin Owens represents predominantly private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies and private and public company borrowers, as well as investment banks and commercial banks, in a broad range of secured and unsecured finance transactions, including acquisition financings, refinancings, asset-based finance, debt-offerings and cross-border deals.
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- Co - Chair - Business & Technology
- Co - Chair of Choate 's Business & Technology Practice Group
Brian Goldstein, co-chair of Choate's Business & Technology Practice Group, has more than 35 years of experience advising venture capital and growth equity investors and innovative, high-growth companies in health IT, healthcare services, life sciences, and medical device industries, on their most important transactions and helping them to increase the returns on their investments.
Brian regularly advises on financings, strategic partnerships and licensing agreements, mergers and acquisitions, and general business counseling. His international practice includes cross-border financings and acquisitions, as well as advice on other U.S.-based activities, for companies headquartered or with significant operations in the United Kingdom/Ireland, Europe, and Israel.
Brian previously served as Assistant General Counsel at Groundwater Technology, Inc., where he handled SEC reporting; acquisitions, divestitures, and joint ventures; and the sale of a controlling interest of the company to Fluor Daniel.
Brian has advised sophisticated investment funds and globally-recognized investors and companies, including 5AM Ventures, Bain Capital Life Sciences, Perceptive Advisors (via Perceptive Xontogeny), and Transformation Capital Partners.
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- Co - Chair - Patent and Intellectual Property
- Co - Chair of Choate 's Patent
Dr. Brian Reese, co-chair of Choate's Patent and Intellectual Property Practice Group, leverages his combination of technical, legal, and business expertise to provide unusually comprehensive and pragmatic counsel to clients in the life sciences industries. Brian helps clients navigate and position themselves within the marketplace, building exclusivity positions that embrace intellectual property rights, corporate agreements, and regulatory options. His creative and thoughtful approach explores sources of positioning that include supply chain management, product lifecycle, and competitive intelligence.
Advising clients on a unique mix of IP protection, transactions, and due diligence with particular focus on handling complex patent portfolios as well as managing IP programs, Brian helps clients create and monetize value for their most important assets, be it through direct product development or a licensing or other commercial transaction.
As a former stock analyst, Brian brings a unique perspective to his practice and understands many of the business realities that his clients face, as well as how intellectual property rights and corporate transactions can help them achieve their goals.
Brian's clients include Biogen, Carisma, Takeda/Shire, LogicBio, Broadview Ventures, MPM Capital, Indigo Ag, Pieris Pharmaceuticals, and AVROBIO.
Job Titles:
- Department Co - Chair - Business
Intellectual property litigator Bryana McGillycuddy helps biotech, pharmaceutical, life sciences, and technology companies to successfully and efficiently resolve intellectual property-related disputes, including complex patent and trade secrets litigation. Her clients appreciate Bryana's practical, thorough, and effective counsel, which ensures that her litigation strategies fit their larger business goals. Bryana's work includes Hatch-Waxman and biosimilars litigation as well as post grant reviews before the USPTO. Bryana also advises clients through intellectual property counseling and conducting due diligence generally. In addition, Bryana has extensive experience representing clients in complex commercial disputes, including licensing disputes.
Bryana has served a wide variety of clients, including Takeda Pharmaceutical Company, Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Akamai Technologies, Chiesi USA, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Shire, Progenics Pharmaceuticals, General Electric, Radius, Bain Capital, and Kronos. Bryana has significant civil and criminal jury trial experience. She also served as a Special Assistant District Attorney in Suffolk County, where she tried numerous cases to verdict in both jury and bench trials.
Bryana McGillycuddy will be a panelist for the session, "ANDA Litigation: Current Trends and Best Practices" at the IP Watchdog 2023 Life Sciences Masters Conference on Wednesday, October 18, 2023.
Bryana McGillycuddy will be a speaker at the Boston Bar Association's Annual IP Year in Review conference on Thursday, March 23rd. Bryana, a member of the BBA's Intellectual Property Law Section Advisory Committee, will participate on the "Intellectual Property in Life Sciences" panel taking place at 2:05 p.m.
Cameron Casey provides comprehensive estate planning advice to high-net-worth individuals and families. She works with her clients to develop plans that achieve clients' goals for themselves, their families and the charitable organizations that are important to them. Strategic tax planning is integral to this process. Cameron serves as a trustee and family advisor for clients, helping them steward family capital, foster intergenerational transitions, and communicate philanthropic values. Cameron also advises tax-exempt organizations and corporate fiduciaries on charitable planning matters.
Cecilia Vega helps clients to maximize the value of their intellectual property assets by providing insights and advice on commercial contracts, joint ventures, M&A transactions generally, and trademark/IP protection. With deep experience working as senior in-house IP and transactions counsel to both General Electric and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Cecilia has structured, prepared, and negotiated IP and technology aspects of major collaboration agreements, tech transfers, acquisitions, dispositions, and joint ventures across a range of technologies. She also has experience with the full range of issues presented by IT contracts, brand & trademark, software and open source matters.
Having joined Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP in 1996, Charles currently leads the firm as its co-managing partner. Servicing clients around the world from a single office in Boston, Choate is one of the pre-eminent law firms in the United States.
Dr. Charles Lyon provides strategic insight to investors and life sciences companies, both VC-backed and publicly-traded, to help them maximize the value of their investments in intellectual property by condensing complex data into actionable insights. Through hundreds of due diligence and intellectual property analysis projects, Charles has helped clients to understand, evaluate, and respond to IP issues that arise in the context of business transactions or during the research and development of new products and technologies. His insights have helped clients to identify "hot" areas in the life sciences landscape which have driven their strategic investment decisions - notably in the areas of immuno-oncology, gene therapy, gene editing, and cell therapy. He also routinely provides advice and opinions regarding freedom-to-operate and intellectual property landscape issues to assist with R&D decisions and in the context of pre-litigation disputes including Hatch-Waxman and Biosimilar litigation.
Charles has served investor clients including Bain Capital, Deerfield Management, 5AM Ventures, Third Rock Ventures, Venrock, Perceptive Advisors, and Broadview Ventures and life sciences companies including Takeda, Gilead, Biogen, GEMoaB, Editas Medicine, and Akouos.
The 2023 edition of Chambers USA Guide to America's Leading Lawyers for Business recognized 16 practice areas and 31 Choate attorneys as leading counsel in their fields, with six receiving Band 1 rankings, three receiving nationwide recognition, two global recognitions, and two senior statesmen.
Job Titles:
- Co - Chair - Healthcare
- Co - Chair of Choate 's Healthcare Group
- Member of the Government Enforcement
As one of the few subject matter experts in the country, Christine is routinely called on to assist academic and clinical research institutions at all stages of the research cycle, from proposal to final close out. She provides legal counsel on contracting, ethical and human subjects protection oversight, effort reporting, and foreign influence issues, and helps craft investigative or disclosure plans in the face of identified problems or concerns. She had led multiple internal reviews related to conflicts of interest, foreign influence, and grants management concerns and resolved material findings with appropriate government agencies including NIH, NSF, OIG and DOJ.
Her work includes helping emerging life sciences companies develop and implement key compliance initiatives to put them on the right footing once they have a viable commercial product. She also collaborates with more established pharma and device companies to assess legal risks related to promotional activities, foundation and charity relationships, Open Payments requirements, and patient assistance programs.
Christine Savage, co-chair of Choate's Healthcare Group and a member of the Government Enforcement and Compliance Group, regularly collaborates with a diverse range of healthcare services and life sciences companies to help them satisfy compliance obligations, protect reputations, deliver value, and ultimately facilitate their ability to focus on their patients or customers. Christine's 27 years of experience working internal investigations and managing government inquiries related to healthcare fraud help inform her approach to compliance and risk management projects.
Courtney Carr provides comprehensive and personalized estate planning advice to high net worth individuals and their families to help them grow and protect multi-generational wealth. She specializes in developing customized estate plans for clients designed to minimize estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer taxes, and to meet each client's personal goals for wealth transfer.
Courtney invests in each client relationship and makes it a priority to personally get to know her clients and their families in order to provide the best advice and service to each of them. She works closely with her colleagues in the Wealth Management Group to provide integrated, customized family office services designed to meet the specific needs of each client family. These services include trust administration, investment management advice through Choate Investment Advisors, income and gift tax advice, and tax return preparation.
Dana Spigelman represents private equity funds and their portfolio companies, as well as emerging companies, in mergers, acquisitions, equity investments, fund formation, capital raising, buyout transactions, dispositions, and other strategic transactions and general corporate matters. He works with a wide range of clients, but has particular experience in the technology, healthcare, life sciences, and consumer products industries.
Clients rely on Dan Riley to help them execute their most important corporate transactions, remarking that his familiarity with the complexities of major deals provides them a combination of cutting-edge legal expertise and practical business judgment.
Dan is viewed as a versatile corporate lawyer who counsels clients on a wide range of transactional and corporate law matters, though his practice is primarily focused on private equity and growth equity transactions.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Chairman of Choate 's Diversity
Danielle Pelot helps clients in life sciences, healthcare, financial services, higher education, and similar regulated sectors to efficiently and successfully address federal and state enforcement actions, fraud allegations, and related complex litigation. She has a particular emphasis in counseling pharmaceutical and medical device companies and life sciences industry professionals. She also assists clients to address sensitive government inquiries involving agencies such as NIH, NSF, HHS-OIG, GSA, DOT, FBI, and DOJ relating to research integrity and foreign influence risks at U.S. academic and research institutions. She works routinely with clients on proactive compliance measures and risk mitigation strategies. Clients value her industry-specific knowledge and sensitivity to organizational dynamics in working closely with stakeholders at all levels.
Prior to joining private practice, Danielle served as a Special Assistant District Attorney for the Middlesex District Attorney's Office where she prosecuted various criminal matters and tried cases to verdict.
Danielle is Chair of Choate's Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee, and previously served as one of the firm's hiring partners.
Danielle Pelot will moderate the panel discussion, "Perilous or Persuasive?: Decision Points and Approaches for Making Your Case to the Government," at the Annual Hybrid Qui Tam Conference on Thursday, February 22nd at 11:30 a.m.
Danielle Pelot is the co-chair of the 2023 BBA Annual Meeting on October 18th, the signature kickoff event of the fall season, which provides an opportunity for the Boston legal community to come together for networking, conversation and thoughtful remarks as we embark on the year ahead.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Recognized As 2023 Thought Leader
David Attisani, a partner in Choate's Insurance & Reinsurance Group (top ranked by Chambers USA and Legal 500), assists insurers and reinsurers in problem-solving, shaping, and winning high profile disputes. Using the thoroughly personal and intense service style his clients value, David also provides evaluations of coverage, wordings advice, and market intelligence.
He has served as lead counsel with respect to the following industry-significant claims: Australian Floods; PFAS/AFFF; COVID-19 BI and WC; NFL CTE; the California wildfires; 9/11 (WTC); "Obamacare"; Larry Nassar/USA Gymnastics liabilities; life rate increase disputes; spousal continuation problems; Superstorm Sandy; Hurricanes Wilma, Katrina, Harvey; the Puerto Rico Hurricanes (Maria/Irma); the Las Vegas shooting; the "Big Dig" Tunnel Collapse; NY "reviver" molestation claims; Archdiocese of L.A., Society of Jesus, and other clergy abuse claims; Boy Scouts of America and school-related sex abuse problems; J&J talc exposures; the Nikita Levy/ Johns Hopkins "rogue" doctor case; Grenfell Tower fire; and Sphere Drake.
David's clients include global insurers and reinsurers Swiss Re, Munich Re, Endurance/Sompo, Chubb, The Hartford, W.R. Berkley, Andover Companies, Liberty Mutual, Acuity, MIIA, Prudential, Partner Re, Aeolus, Ascot, Generali, R&Q, Symetra, and Argo Group.
David Attisani has been recognized in the 2023 Who's Who Legal (WWL)'s inaugural edition of Thought Leaders: USA for Insurance & Reinsurance, a special publication featuring the highest-ranking attorneys and experts in the United States based on WWL's independent research with clients and peers.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Counsels Private Equity, Public, and Strategic Clients
David Mollo-Christensen counsels private equity, public, and strategic clients in a broad range of executive compensation and employee benefits matters. He has experience representing clients in all types of transactions, including the acquisition and disposition of portfolio companies, strategic acquisitions and divestitures, and global public mergers, but has a particular focus on M&A and private equity transactions.
In addition, David represents companies in connection with IPOs, SPACs, spin-offs, and joint ventures, and helps to negotiate employment and separation agreements, as well as equity-based and other incentive arrangements. He also advises companies regarding SEC regulatory and federal securities law compliance and disclosure obligations.
Derek H. Farquhar works with clients in Choate's Litigation Department.
Prior to joining Choate, Derek served as a law clerk to Judge Christina C. Reiss of the United States District Court for the District of Vermont. While in law school, Derek completed an internship with Judge Juan R. Torruella of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Derek was also a Student Attorney at the Boston University School of Law Startup Law Clinic.
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- Co - Chair - Government Enforcement & Compliance
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- Co - Chair of Choate 's Business Department
- Department Co - Chair - Business
Douglas Gooding is co-chair of Choate's Business Department and has more than 25 years of experience advising on financing and restructuring transactions, particularly on debtor-in-possession lending and the representation of holders of senior, second lien, and mezzanine debt in complex restructurings. He also specializes in advising troubled companies in various industries including healthcare and retail. Doug also has extensive experience in mass tort bankruptcy cases representing insurance providers.
Dylan Rogalin represents public and private companies, including private equity funds and strategic investors, in connection with mergers and acquisitions, cross-border acquisitions, growth equity investments, corporate governance, and other general corporate matters. He has experience in a wide range of industries, including technology.
Ed Saad brings a unique, business-savvy perspective to his work advising clients on a broad range of U.S. and international transactions and tax structuring. He has experience working with private equity sponsors and financial institutions on domestic and cross-border M&A transactions and strategic tax planning, and has represented fund sponsors and multinational businesses on corporate, deal, and fund structuring in a range of industries, including private equity and real estate.
Ellen Baker represents private equity funds and their portfolio companies in mergers and acquisitions, growth equity investments, and other strategic transactions. She works with a range of clients, but has particular experience in the technology industry.
Emily Hodge has significant experience representing individuals and life sciences companies in government and internal investigations and providing compliance advice to companies that are navigating a challenging and nuanced enforcement environment. She is viewed by clients as a pragmatic thinker who applies her experience and knowledge to help them reduce their risk of enforcement actions.
Her analytical skills, knowledge of the industry, relationships with government representatives, and leadership make her a valued contributor in complex investigations and a trusted advisor in times of critical decision-making for her clients. Emily is committed to public interest work. She chairs Choate's collaboration with the Lawyers Clearinghouse, in which the firm conducts legal clinics at local homeless shelters. In June 2009, the Lawyers Clearinghouse awarded Emily its Pro Bono Award, and the Lawyers Clearinghouse Newsletter has featured her in its "Pro Bono Spotlight."
Early in her career, Emily served as a Special Assistant District Attorney in Suffolk County at the Boston Municipal Court, where she gained considerable criminal trial experience.
Emily Hodge will join a panel discussion providing a Prosecution and Enforcement Actions Update at the Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Ethics & Compliance Congress on Wednesday, October 25 at 4:15 p.m.
Emily Hodge is moderating the panel "Prosecutor Perspectives: Focal Points, Top Enforcement Trends and Priorities for Specialty Pharma and Biotech Companies in 2023" at the Compliance Congress for Specialty Products on Wednesday, September 20th from 9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
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- Co - Chair - IP Litigation
Choate represented First Eagle Alternative Credit as administrative agent to a group of lenders in an $88M senior secured term loan credit facility to Dorel Industries Inc., a global manufacturer of juvenile products and home furnishings.
Frank J. Pustorino represents domestic and international fund sponsors across asset classes. He focuses on private investment funds, including venture capital, growth equity, secondary, lower middle market private equity, buyout, and credit funds. He advises clients on structuring, fundraising, ongoing operations and administration, portfolio transactions, upper-tier management arrangements, and regulatory compliance. Frank also represents institutional investors in connection with their participation in different private investment vehicles.
Gregg Cosimi has a deep and successful track record representing clients in all areas related to their transactional real estate needs. He provides counsel in structuring and evaluating investments across most real estate classes including industrial, research/lab, office, retail, and multifamily. Gregg also has extensive experience in negotiating loan facilities (borrower and lender side), acquisitions, development, joint venture, and lease documents. Additionally, he helps clients navigate distressed situations, advising lenders in workouts of troubled assets.
Gregg is a LEED Accredited Professional (LEED-AP), a distinction earned through the Green Building Certification Institute, which demonstrates his thorough knowledge of green building principles and practices.
Howard Rosenblum focuses his practice on the formation of, and investments by domestic and international private equity funds, and provides general representation to emerging growth enterprises. Prior to joining Choate, Mr. Rosenblum was a partner in the Corporate and Securities Group at DLA Piper and a partner in the Corporate Group at Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault. He has been listed in Chambers USA, Chambers Global, Who's Who Legal and The Legal 500.
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- Co - Chair - Finance & Restructuring
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- Co - Chair - Finance & Restructuring
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- Co - Chair - Business & Technology
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- Co - Chair - Patent and Intellectual Property
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- Co - Chair - Private Equity
Mark Edgarton has served as counsel and a trusted advisor to some of the country's leading technology companies, helping clients to successfully resolve a wide range of intellectual property and complex commercial disputes in federal and state courts across the country and in domestic and international arbitration proceedings. He has extensive experience investigating, navigating and litigating high stakes matters in various industries and involving contractual violations, misappropriation of trade secrets, violations of restrictive covenants and misconduct by former employees and competitors, patent infringement, false advertising and other acts of unfair competition. Mark also routinely represents and advises public and private companies, private equity firms and their portfolio companies in myriad disputes arising from mergers and acquisitions, financial restructurings, and various other commercial transactions.
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- Department Co - Chair - Litigation
Michael Bunis and David Attisani have received 2022 Lexology "Client Choice" awards for their respective practice areas in Massachusetts.
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- Chairman - Complex Trial & Appellate Litigation
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- Department Co - Chair - Litigation
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- Co - Chair - Private Equity
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- Co - Chair - Private Equity