Corporate Finance

• Represented Inspectorio, a quality control and supplier compliance verification platform, in its $10 million Series A funding round led by Techstars, with participation from Ecolab and Target Corporation. 
• Represented ezCater, the only nationwide marketplace for business catering, in its $100 million Series D financing led by Wellington Management Company LLP, with participation from existing investors ICONIQ Capital, Insight Venture Partners and others.
• Represented venture capital firm CRV (Charles River Ventures) as lead investor in a $10 million Series A financing for contract management company Concord.
• Represented Recorded Future, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) threat intelligence company, in its $25M Series E financing led by Insight Venture Partners. 
• Represented Zumper, the online apartment search platform, in its $17.6M Series B funding led by Breyer Capital and Foxhaven Asset Management, including follow-up funding from existing investors Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, Goodwater Capital, Scott Cook and others. 
• Represented Ovia Health (formerly known as Ovuline), the leading women's healthcare technology company, in its $10 million Series A Financing to support future growth and expand its maternity benefits solution to employers and insurers nationwide 
• Advised Datadog, a SaaS-based monitoring and data analytics platform that provides a unified view of IT infrastructure, in its $31 million Series C financing led by existing investor Index Ventures,with follow-on investments from  RTP Ventures, Amplify Partners, and OpenView Venture Partners.
• Represented Jibo, Inc., a maker of a social robot, in its $25.3 million Series A financing.
• Represented Linkable Networks, a loyalty advertising technology company that aims to engage retailers and consumer-packaged goods brands with millennials, in its $11.7 million in funding.  
• Advised global app-testing leader, Applause, in its $43 million series E financing led by Goldman Sachs.
• Advised InsightSquared, a provider of next generation business intelligence software as a service, on its $13.5 million Series C financing led by Atlas Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, NextView Ventures and Two Sigma Ventures.
• Advised cloud security pioneer and the world’s leading cloud data security company, CloudLock, in its $16.5 million series C financing led by Bessemer Venture Capital.
• Advised VoltDB in its $8 million Series B financing led by Sigma Partners and Kepha Partners. 
• Represented Harvest Automation, Inc., a developer of robotic equipment for the agriculture industry, in its $11.75 million Series C financing round.
• Represented Onshape Inc. , a venture-backed company that is applying cloud, web and mobile technologies to CAD, in its $25 million Series B.

Intellectual Property

• Represented IBM in two successful PTAB appeals of USPTO Examiner rejections on patent applications directed towards content decryption technologies.
• Represented LevelUp, the nation’s largest mobile payment network, in obtaining summary judgment of non-infringement.
• Tried major patent and technology-related cases for Hughes Aircraft, General Motors, Titanium Metals, Nickson Industries and Boston Communications Group.
• Served as lead counsel for Hittite Microwave in defense of patent infringement litigation concerning integrated circuits.
• Successfully defended a consortium of Boston-area hospitals and universities in patent litigation concerning magnetic resonance imaging technology.
• Assisted a well-known manufacturer of CAD design software in a multinational trademark dispute with a competing software provider with respect to use of certain terms commonly used in the industry. We handled a large number of trademark opposition and cancellation proceedings filed by our client worldwide.

Licensing & Strategic Alliances

• Represented a fabless semiconductor company in its licensing of technology and patents from IBM.
• Represented a software company in licensing to state health insurance exchanges established by the Affordable Care Act.
• Represented developer of software and hardware systems for position tracking in collaboration agreement with a sports media company.
• Represented a maker of software used for Internet data caching in its licensing of its software to a major Indian telecommunications network.
• Represent a major automotive manufacturer in a wide variety of matters, such as inbound software and technology licensing, outbound data licensing, strategic alliance with a public company, and development of form agreements including a master services agreement, purchasing agreement, and confidentiality agreement. Also advised on protection and licensing of its brand-name trademarks, including advising on and negotiating licenses to authorized dealers and other affiliates.

Litigation

• Represented the founder and Chief Executive Officer of a high technology company at trial in an accounting revenue recognition case.
• Successfully represented Uber Technologies (a transportation technology company whose popular mobile app connects riders to drivers) in obtaining dismissal of Massachusetts Superior Court litigation alleging that the Uber mobile app constituted an illegal taximeter under Massachusetts law.
• Obtained dismissal for Dell, Inc. in a consumer class action in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court based on arguments for change in governing law.
• Represented Hittite Microwave Corporation of public company in defending against shareholder class litigation challenging the $2.5 billion acquisition of Hittite and enabled the transaction to close on schedule with no change to price or deal terms.  
• Defended EMC Corporation in shareholder appraisal action arising out of merger; Mary Morgan v. Voyence, Inc. (Delaware Chancery Court).

Mergers & Acquisitions

• Advised global cybersecurity leader RSA in its acquisition of Fortscale, a behavioral analytics company.
• Represented leading healthcare data analytics company Inovalon Holdings Inc. (INOV:Nasdaq) in its $1.2B acquisition of ABILITY Network, a cloud-based software-as-a-service healthcare technology company. 
• Represented information technology corporation Dell Technologies in its $145.8 million sale of Mozy, Inc. to data protection company Carbonite, Inc. (NASDAQ:CARB). 
• Represented Body Labs, a creator of 3D body model technology, in its acquisition by Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN).
• Represented Dragon Innovation, a provider of manufacturing solutions that help new hardware developers go from prototype to full production, in its sale to Avnet (NYSE: AVT).
• Represented Mill Road Capital II, L.P. and its portfolio company, Skullcandy Inc., in the $85M sale of Skullcandy’s ASTRO Gaming headset business to Logitech (NASDAQ: LOGI), a Swiss public company offering music, gaming, video and computing products.
• Represented security orchestration and automation company Komand, Inc. in its sale to corporate network security company Rapid7 (NASDAQ: RPD).
• Represented International Data Group, Inc. in its acquisition by China Oceanwide and IDG Capital, Inc.
• Represented computer-aided engineering company Exa Corporation (NASDAQ:EXA) in its $400M sale to French software company Dassault.
• Represented Mill Road Capital Management LLC, a private investment firm focused on investing in publicly traded micro-cap companies in the U.S. and Canada, in the going private acquisition of Skullcandy, Inc. (Nasdaq; SKUL), a creator of world-class audio experiences through its Skullcandy and Astro Gaming brands, after a contested process.
• Represented Dell EMC in the sale of EMC’s enterprise content division, including Documentum and other leading enterprise content management solutions, to Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ:OTEX) (TSX: OTC), a global leader in enterprise information management, for $1.62 billion.