Education & Nonprofits

Public Finance

• Served as bond and borrower counsel to Merrimack College with respect to new money bonds issued by the Massachusetts Development Finance Agency
• Served as bond and borrower counsel to College of the Holy Cross with respect to refunding bonds issued by the Massachusetts Development Finance Agency and bank loan amendments.
• Serving as counsel to Boston College on all financing matters for over 20 years, including issuances of revenue bonds to fund capital projects at the College.
• Served as borrower counsel to Bowdoin College for a bond refunding.
• Served as bond and borrower counsel to College of the Holy Cross in connection with refunding bonds and bank line of credit amendments.
• Represented indenture trustees, bond insurers and bondholders in the default and workout of numerous charter schools located throughout the country.
• Serves as bond counsel and general counsel to the Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority since its inception over 40 years ago. MEFA maintains an active three part capital program to fund a wide variety of higher education loans, two major college tuition savings programs, an ABLE program for eligible persons, educational programs and other public services for families and students. The three part capital program includes long term education loan bonds, taxable asset-backed notes meeting the requirements of the highly rated ABS market and a loan warehousing program funded by commercial paper.

Corporate

• Represented Next Generation Children’s Centers, a family-owned business, in its merger with Cadence Education, Inc.

Litigation

• Obtained a favorable post-trial decision in the Delaware Court of Chancery for corporate and individual clients charged with breaches of fiduciary duties.
• Represented Project OHR, a nonprofit provider of home attendants, in two hybrid class actions and collective actions relating to issues that arise from overtime exemptions for certain domestic employees under federal and state law. We defeated both collection action certification under FLSA as well as Rule 23 class action.
• Representing Chelsea’s Light Foundation, a non-profit organization working to protect children from sexual predators, in trademark and contractual matters.
• Representing The Brain Observatory, a non-profit research and public benefit organization, in trademark and licensing matters.
• Represented the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation as amicus curiae in a case involving First Amendment freedom of speech.

Intellectual Property

• Represent a leading nonprofit clinical research center, hospital, and graduate school which is a founding member of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network. The center is focused on the treatment of cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening diseases, and has been designated as a comprehensive cancer center, the highest acknowledgment granted by the National Cancer Institute. The firm's attorneys have represented the hospital in developing and implementing strategies for procuring patents in a variety of chemical and biomedical technologies.
• Serves as lead patent counsel for academic teaching hospital in Rhode Island. We prepare and prosecute patent applications with inventors with joint appointments at the hospital and a world-renowned university in a wide variety of medical disciplines. Recent issued patents cover field such as treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease, method of detecting sepsis, liver stem cells, and diagnosing metastatic breast cancer. We advise our client on patent strategy, commercialization, and licensing negotiations.

Employment

• Provide employment and contract advice and terms to the Compensation Committee of the Board of Trustees of New England Institute of Technology. We routinely evaluate and provide recommendations on executive compensation levels in consideration of IRS’ intermediate sanctions regulations and advise on legal requirements for Form 990 executive compensation reporting.

Health

• Assisted a university health system with a significant data breach (several hundred thousand patients) stemming from the hack of an unsecured cancer patient data bank. Managed federal response and mitigation measures including a revised research data security plan.
• Provided strategic counsel to a University regarding the creation of its integrated health care services and physician network.