The Boston office, which opened in 1984, serves clients from New England and elsewhere across a broad array of disciplines.

Our Boston-based business lawyers represent a variety of capital markets participants, mature enterprises, and growth companies, both public and private, addressing a wide range of their legal needs, including organization and structuring, public and private financing, mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital, restructuring and bankruptcy, tax planning with respect to strategic and operational matters, joint venture arrangements, product development collaborations, technology licensing, equity-based compensation plans, and executive compensation.  Our investment management lawyers represent SEC-registered investment companies in all aspects of their operations including satisfying SEC registration, disclosure, and regulatory compliance obligations, and obtaining SEC no-action letters and exemptions.  We also represent investment advisers and broker-dealers in discharging their registration, disclosure and compliance responsibilities.  The Boston real estate lawyers conduct a traditional transactional practice as well as land use and development activities.  The group assists in financing, leasing, and property acquisitions, and represents various regional lenders in connection with real estate-related loans and their own direct real estate activities.  Our trust and estates group engages in estate planning, succession planning, tax planning, estate administration, and extensive trusts and estate litigation.  Also, as is common with larger Boston law firms, the group's lawyers conduct a trust administration practice on behalf of the firm's clients.

In 2005, our Boston office intellectual property lawyers were augmented by the arrival of two dozen new colleagues from the firm of Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault LLP.  With our reconstituted group of over 30 intellectual property lawyers, our Boston office is actively engaged in prosecuting patents, obtaining trademark and copyright registrations, litigating patent and other intellectual property disputes and otherwise representing our clients in matters of national and international significance. 

The Boston office handles a wide variety of complex civil litigation matters, including intellectual property, insurance coverage, environmental, securities, mortgage banking, construction, products liability, creditor's rights/bankruptcy, and other complex commercial matters.  We currently represent or have recently represented major corporations in insurance coverage actions, numerous mortgage lenders defending yield spread premium class actions, various employers on a variety of employment contract and law issues, manufacturers in patent infringement and product liability cases; and corporations or corporate officers in securities and other regulatory enforcement and criminal proceedings and in civil suits.  We also have defended a variety of healthcare companies, healthcare providers, and individual physicians and other medical personnel in both federal and state initiated healthcare fraud and abuse proceedings and governmental investigations. Our employment and labor lawyers litigate cases involving trade secrets, non-compete agreements, employment contracts, and discrimination issues; represent clients in labor negotiations; and counsel them on all legal aspects of personnel management, including conducting employer-training sessions.