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I help clients create and protect vital revenue streams, guiding them through development, licensing, marketing and distribution transactions, as well as strategic partnership agreements involving local, regional and global partners. I am particularly well known for my work on revenue-generating transactions that leverage the value of intellectual property assets, having worked on more than 1,000 significant deals involving IP research and licensing. I frequently serve non-profit research organizations, including universities, foundations and academic medical centers, assisting them in specialized and sophisticated transactions with industry partners involving translational research, clinical trials, sponsored research, data use, material transfer, and creation of bio-specimen repositories.I also help inventors, developers, distributors, and other key players in the high-tech, software, cloud services, medical device, life science, pharmaceutical, agricultural, food product, and manufacturing sectors of the economy. Because of my experience in dealing with complex technical issues, clients ask for my guidance in matters involving data privacy, e-commerce, information technology and various internet-related endeavors. Clients appreciate that I'm a good listener who generates creative ideas to move parties from impasse to progress. I am a strategic thinker who is candid and direct, capable of seeing the big picture as well as paying attention to details. In addition to my significant private practice experience, I have more than a decade of experience serving as in-house counsel at MIT’s Technology Licensing Office, where I managed day-to-day office operations, as well as MIT’s entire trademark portfolio. At MIT, I worked on numerous transactions involving patents, trademarks and copyrights for software, medical devices and life science innovations.

Listed skills include Licensing, Intellectual Property, Venture Capital, Patents, and 25 others.