Practice Focus
Alex is a business lawyer with more than 15 years of experience handling a wide range of transactions. His practice includes representation of companies at all stages of development, as well as investors, executives and other individuals. Alex advises software, communications, consulting, life science and other technology-based businesses, both public and private, as well as more traditional business enterprises.
Among the types of matters that Alex handles are financings, including venture capital investments, bank loans and angel investments; development and distribution arrangements, including inbound and outbound technology licensing, ASP agreements, distribution and sales agreements and development agreements; mergers and acquisitions, including stock and asset acquisitions, restructurings and purchases and divestitures of business units; securities law compliance, including public company reporting; 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.Sample 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.
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 subsidiary, 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. |