Eric Masson Email & Phone Number

Brookline, Massachusetts, US

Represent buyers and sellers through mergers, acquisitions, and sales in the health care industry.

Boston, MA, US

• Responsible for, provide oversight to, and manage all legal, compliance and insurance matters for parent and five subsidiary companies disrupting the dental industry nationwide.
• Responsible for all Merger & Acquisition (M&A) activity, contract review, and corporate compliance.
• Direct and manage all litigation and intellectual property matters; advise on employee/HR issues.
• Provide daily legal advice to CEO, executives, and subsidiary business leaders. Provide vision and direction for Director of Compliance on implementing internal, state and federal regulatory compliance programs.
• Developed vision and legal framework for complex equity roll-up of five affiliated companies. Successful execution required exceptional leadership and coordination with equity holders, debt/security holders, and.
• Exceptional relationship management with external counsel, third party lenders and multiple individual owners was a driving force on complex $40M debt financing agreement and simultaneous acquisition of 9 dental.

Washington, DC, US

• Provided legal counsel and advice to Coast Guard senior executive and all subordinate operational units in southeastern U.S., Caribbean Sea, and Bahamas on maritime authorities (counter-drug, maritime immigration, and.
• Supervised prosecution of felony and misdemeanor trials.
• Liaised with U.S. Attorney Offices on maritime drug and migrant smuggling cases.
• Supervisor of 10 active duty and reserve judge advocates, 2 civilian attorneys, and 2 paralegals.
• Developed, managed, and executed $131K annual budget.
• Hand-selected as Coast Guard’s legal participant in historic meeting with Cuban Border Guard.

Washington, DC, US

• Presided over Special Courts-martial cases, jury and bench trials.
• Controlled case management from docketing through findings, sentencing, and post-trial.
• Received evidence, issued legal rulings, and sentenced those found guilty.

Washington, DC, US

• First Coast Guard Judge Advocate in newly created, highly competitive position. Advised DoD senior executives on maritime law, counter-drug, counter-terror, and information operations issues
• Provided legal oversight for subordinate units conducting counter-drug operations & exercises.
• Hand-selected as Department of Defense legal representative on interagency team to travel to Colombia to resolve sensitive international incident.
• Investigated and prosecuted high-visibility Courts-martial cases resulting from misconduct during Presidential visit to Colombia.

Washington, DC, US

• Provided legal advice (employment law, regulatory, FOIA, etc) to Deputy Commandant for Mission Support units.
• Served as defense counsel at Naval Legal Service Office Mid-Atlantic representing 20+ clients in General and Special Courts-martial and 50+ clients in administrative separation boards.
• As trial defense counsel, identified unique issues in three cases requiring resolution and new case law by Court of Appeals of Armed Forces (U.S. v. Fosler,70 M.J. 225 (C.A.AF. 2011), U.S. v. Ballan, 71 M.J. 28.

Washington, DC, US

Formulated and executed $140M budget, interpreted and applied federal appropriations and procurement law. Compiled and analyzed complex financial reports to include regressions, forecasting, Activity Based Costing, and risk assessment. Held previous position as Financial Programs and Internal Audits Team Leader: Administered internal audit program on.

Washington, DC, US

World-wide deployment to conduct Maritime Law Enforcement Training in support of the President’s National Strategic Policy. Responsible for curriculum development, revision and instruction of more than 15 separate courses, including International Maritime Law and United Nations Convention on Law of the Sea.

Washington, DC, US

J.D. (Cum Laude)

Mba

Bachelor Of Science, Management