An experienced business and transactional lawyer, Mike represents a wide range of life sciences, technology, digital media, and other innovation-based companies.
Mike’s practice is focused on licensing, strategic and business development transactions, and commercial transactions. He advises clients regarding clinical trial agreements; commercial agreements; strategic alliances, including alliances for co-discovery, co-development, and co-commercialization; intellectual property licenses, including licenses for compounds, processes, platforms, and software; industry collaborations, including manufacturing, formulation, and process collaborations; university collaborations, including clinical trial and other sponsored research agreements, and material transfer agreements; and distribution agreements.
Mike is one of a select group of attorneys to have participated in the National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps (I-Corps) program, which prepares scientists and engineers to extend their focus beyond the laboratory, and broadens the impact of particular, NSF-funded, basic-research projects.
A former in-house lawyer and business development and strategic alliances professional, Mike brings a practical perspective to clients’ legal issues with a keen understanding of the importance of agreements that facilitate rather than hinder business.
Affiliations
The Startup Coalition, Co-Founder and Executive Director
Life Sciences Venture Network, Founder and Executive Director
MassDiGI, Advisory Board Member
MIT Enterprise Forum Games and Entertainment Special Interest Group – Founder and former Chair
Speaking Engagements
Speaker, Trends and Developments IP Counsel, Business Lawyers and Litigators Must Know, 21st Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference 2018
Moderator, An Ounce of Prevention: How Startups Can Avoid Legal Snafus
Presenter, Game Publishing 2.0, BBA Event
Presenter, Software Licensing: Battle of the Forms
Presenter, The Law of Digital Games
Moderator, Creative Communities: Building Games outside the Hub, MassDiGI symposium
Presenter, Anatomy of a Game Development Deal, Franklin M. Loew Lecture Series – Becker College
Presenter, Entertainment Law Practice in the Digital Age: New Developments, BBA Event
Publications
Force Majeure in Light of the Coronavirus Outbreak
Open Source Issues in Mergers & Acquisitions
Developing an App? Make sure you own it!, Adobe Developer Connection
Patent Licensing Strategies After Medimmune, with Howard Zaharoff
Linden Lab’s ‘Second Life’ in a Catch-22 over virtual property, Boston Business Journal
Outside the office
An ardent cyclist, Mike is an eleven-year veteran of the Pan Mass Challenge, a two-day, 192 mile charity bicycle ride for the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, in connection with which he has raised over $55,000, and he recently completed the Mt. Washington Auto Road Bicycle Hillclimb, referred to by many as the toughest bicycle hillclimb in the world.
News & Events
News
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COVID-19 Resource Collection
Coronavirus Updates
July 21, 2022 -
Force Majeure in Light of the Coronavirus Outbreak
March 16, 2020 -
Data Privacy Bell Ringers
These Situations Should Ring a Bell and Prompt Discussion with Privacy Counsel
January 8, 2018 -
Client Alert – Happy Halloween!
4 SCARY Facts about the New European Union General Data Protection Regulation
October 31, 2017 -
Client Alert – Happy Halloween!
6 SCARY Privacy and Data Security Facts and Recent Developments
October 31, 2016
Events
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2019 VC and M&A Forum
May 2, 2019 -
Show Me the Money: Bio Bucks, Royalties and Other Payment Structures in Strategic Alliances
April 3, 2019 -
2018 VC and M&A Forum
March 29, 2018 -
Encore Event! Strategic Alliances: Pot of Gold or Pretty Poison?
June 28, 2017 -
Strategic Alliances: Pot of Gold or Pretty Poison? – Life Sciences Series – Panel 4
April 28, 2017
Representative Matters
Education
- Northeastern University School of Law, J.D.
- Worcester State College, B.A., summa cum laude
Admissions
- Massachusetts Bar
Practice Areas
- Copyright
- Intellectual Property
- Licensing & Strategic Alliances
- Privacy & Data Security
- Startups & Emerging Companies