David Bender has extensive litigation, counseling, and transactional experience in Privacy, Intellectual Property, and Information Technology. He co-founded the Privacy practice, and founded the IP practice, at White & Case, and headed that firm’s Privacy practice.
Leon Fortin, Jr. focuses on patent strategy and technology transaction due diligence. Prior to GTC, Leon directed award-winning international engineering teams providing predictable delivery of high-quality commercial and industrial products at Cognex Corporation.
Stacey Irizarry is a Technology Consultant and registered patent agent focusing on intellectual property strategy and related business concerns, including investor-side due diligence, M&A due diligence and patent evaluation.
Anne Bohan is a technology consultant and registered patent agent with GTC Law Group. Before joining GTC Law Group, Anne was a global Product Line Manager for Digital Radiographic systems at Eastman Kodak & Carestream Health.
Stephen Pakan focuses on M&A due diligence and transactional matters. Prior to joining to GTC, Steve was a project manager for Autonomy, Inc. and held internships at The Mathworks, Inc., Stratify, Inc., The Massachusetts Information & Technology Division, and the Suffolk Superior Court of Massachusetts.
Grace Lee focuses on M&A and general corporate matters. She holds a J.D. from Boston College Law School and a B.A. in both history and government from the University of Virginia and is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and New York.
Tony focuses on strategic development of patent portfolios, open source software compliance and due diligence, with a focus on mergers, acquisitions and technology-related transactions.
Greg specializes in patent procurement, analysis, and strategy matters with a technical focus on electrical and software inventions.
Ray Zenkert has significant experience in drafting and prosecuting patent applications in a variety of technologies.
Rick M. Olin is a member at GTC Law Group, where his practice focuses on transactional matters, including: M&A and technology transfer; compliance areas such as data privacy and security, and information management matters; as well as general business counseling to GTC’s technology and media clients.
Email: cschill@gtclawgroup.com Phone: 636-248-5737
Morten Boyd is a licensing and contracts specialist based in GTC’s Los Angeles affiliate office. He is a member of the firm’s M&A and licensing practices and oversees the firm’s transactional due diligence function.
Andrew Poling focuses on M&A, intellectual property strategy, licensing and other technology-related transactions. Prior to joining GTC, Andrew held intern positions in the US Attorney’s Office, the Litigation Bureau in the Massachusetts Department of Revenue, and Choate, Hall & Stewart’s IP Group.
Lisa Trainor is a member of GTC’s M&A and business transactions groups and currently serves as the firm’s Managing Member.
Sean Belanga is a shareholder and co-founder of GTC and has over 20 years of experience in M&A and intellectual property transactions.
Christina Moharram specializes in corporate and general business transactions across a range of industries, including energy, information technology, telecommunications, agribusiness, manufacturing, retail, biotechnology and financial services.
Veronica Louie focuses on M&A, intellectual property strategy, and general corporate matters.
Jason Lancaric joined GTC in 2013 and provides support to the M&A, Tech Transactions & Licensing and IP Strategy & Prosecution practices with a focus on IP due diligence support.
Michael Webber specializes in corporate transactions and the corporate representation of technology companies and investors, with a particular emphasis on venture capital financings.
Steve Wills focuses on patent prosecution and patent portfolio strategy. Steve has deep experience, both as an engineer and an attorney, in various technologies, including engine controls and diagnostics, control of manufactured component composition and microstructure, medical devices, after-treatment systems, oilfield technologies, applied electronics and software.
Konrad has unique, multifaceted experience in patent prosecution derived from several perspectives, including that of a USPTO patent examiner, start-up technology company with a platform technology, law firm patent agent navigating prior art and registration hurdles and academia evaluating patentability.
Sayoko’s practice focuses on intellectual property strategy and transactions and data privacy and security law. She has extensive expertise in due diligence in connection with technology M&A transactions.
Jennifer Heisler Lavalley specializes in trademark law. Prior to joining GTC, she served as Senior Corporate Counsel to Polaroid Corporation.
Lois Novotny’s practice focuses on general business and corporate law and intellectual property law. Her diverse in-house and major law firm experience includes 13 years as Vice President and Associate General Counsel to Houghton Mifflin Company, one of the nation’s major educational publishers.
Brad Goldring focuses on M&A due diligence and technology-related transactional matters. Brad specializes in providing open source software-related advice, including risk identification and management strategies for businesses of all sizes.
Kelly Smith is a senior patent paralegal with extensive experience in all phases of patent prosecution.
Email: bcampbell@gtclawgroup.com Phone: 617.417.0700
John leads the strategy and prosecution efforts for companies in many different technology areas and has extensive corporate and private practice experience in the life sciences and medical technology domains, including deep experience in the digital health and wearable spaces.
Robert Nortrup is a Registered Patent Agent and Technology Consultant and focuses on intellectual property strategy and related business concerns.
Thomas Hemnes is a prominent Boston intellectual property attorney and an internationally recognized expert on intellectual property law.
Rick is a US tax attorney and an internationally recognized expert in the tax-efficient structuring of domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, strategic investments and joint ventures, including the use of IP holding companies.
Leon provides practical, real-word advice covering the in-licensing and making available of both open source and commercial software, represents buyers and sellers in various transactions, and advises clients on their privacy and trademark-related matters.
GTC Law Group PC is pleased to announce that Veronica Louie, Leon Schwartz, and John Stephen Wills have become Principals of the firm. M&A, Tech Transactions and Licensing and Corporate groups. Veronica joined the firm in 2011 after serving at the U. S. Federal District Court-District of Massachusetts, the Electronic Privacy Information Center and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington D.C. Veronica has extensive experience counseling clients on domestic and international acquisitions, divestitures and investment transactions, with particular focus on software, information technology and data-intensive businesses. Veronica holds a J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law and a […]
GTC Law Group & Affiliates’ Tony Decicco, Shareholder, presented at the Linux Foundation’s Open Compliance Summit Japan on December 1, 2020. His session, titled “Extending OpenChain: Beyond Compliance”, focused on leveraging the OpenChain Specification for additional value, including: As a basis for reps & warranties and due diligence in M&A and other transactions; As a maturity model for advising on implementation of an Open Source Program Office; As a mechanism for gauging operational risk; and As a basis for an open source insurance product.
GTC Law Group & Affiliates’ Tony Decicco, Shareholder, and Stephen Pakan, Associate, along with Synopsys, published a whitepaper titled “Open Source Software in SaaS Offerings: Truths, Myths, and Considerations”. The whitepaper examines the potential pitfalls of using open source in SaaS applications and strategic considerations to manage them. A copy of the whitepaper is available at: https://www.synopsys.com/software-integrity/resources/white-papers/open-source-software-saas-offerings.html
GTC Law Group & Affiliates’ Tony Decicco, Shareholder, & Leon Schwartz, Associate, presented at Black Duck Flight 2019 on September 19, 2019. The presentation, titled “So You’ve Got Your Open Source Audit Report, Now What?”, covered: • How to effectively identify and manage compliance and security risks associated with open source software • Next steps once you have composition of the code