Typical Business Representations

I am currently acting, or have recently acted, in a general counsel capacity to among others, the following companies:

• LaunchCyte, a biotechnology acquisition and development firm, where I served for nearly three years as in-house general counsel and handled legal matters for LaunchCyte and its portfolio companies; now act as LaunchCyte’s outside counsel
• Provider of products and services for the creation, deployment and maintenance of custom Linux distributions
• Developer of an in silico model of inflammatory diseases for drug development and clinical diagnostics
• Company providing ultra-high-throughput screening services for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries
• Developer of diagnostic and therapeutic products for neurologic disease
• Provider of asset management and mobile computer inspection technology
• Developer of novel sample-preparation products for the proteomics marketplace
• Architecture/development firm

Representative Transactions and Undertakings

• Private placements of preferred stock, common stock, convertible notes and warrants for startup and early-stage technology companies
• Licensing of technologies from the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, the University of Pittsburgh and Indiana University in exchange for cash and/or stock, including preparation of ancillary stock purchase and shareholders agreements
• Proprietary and open source software licensing
• Financing transactions, on behalf of early-stage companies, with leading economic development agencies such as Innovation Works, the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development, Idea Foundry and the Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse
• Executive employment, consulting, advisor, confidentiality and other agreements on behalf of technology companies
• Corporate formation and seed capital financing for technology companies
• Management agreements between biotechnology incubator and its portfolio companies
• Counsel regarding wide variety of legal issues facing startup companies, including intellectual property matters, corporate governance, issuance and management of stock options, employment matters and shareholder relations