Foley Hoag LLP

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Stepping up on behalf of clients buffeted by the ongoing financial crisis, law firm Foley Hoag has formed an Economic Crisis Team, comprised of lawyers from multiple practices focused on helping companies cope with the fast-changing landscape – from internal investigations and enforcement proceedings, to increased regulatory compliance, securities and other types of litigation, bankruptcies and restructurings, as well as emergency financing and deal-making. 

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Foley Hoag LLP congratulates our client Advanced Electron Beams, a Wilmington, Massachusetts company which enables the green factory of the future for today by making sustainability possible and profitable for manufacturers, for closing its venture capital investment from GE Energy Financial Services, a unit of GE (NYSE: GE).

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The American Lawyer named Foley Hoag LLP to its annual “A-List” of the country’s 50 elite law firms that are "best at balancing a thriving business with their obligations to the profession." Inclusion in the A-List is based not only on economic success but also on success in furthering diversity, pro bono work, and associate satisfaction.

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Foley Hoag LLP released a snapshot of key legal, business, and regulatory issues facing the life sciences industry at the BIO 2008 conference in San Diego.  Partners serving a variety of areas, from patent prosecution and strategy to corporate/finance, FDA/regulatory and litigation offer emerging and established companies in the life sciences industry with a roadmap of how to navigate some of the pressing issues facing this highly competitive sector.

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Chambers and Partners, a leading U.K.-based research and publishing company, has again included Foley Hoag and its individual lawyers in its popular Chambers USA: The Client’s Guide. In the 2008 guide, Foley Hoag is represented in the areas of Antitrust, Banking & Finance (Corporate & Regulatory and Massachusetts), Bankrupcty/Restructuring, Corporate/M&A, Environment, Hedge & Mutual Funds, Intellectual Property, Labor & Employment, Litigation and Private Equity: Buyouts & Venture Capital.

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In its recently-launched 2008 U.S. guide, Legal 500 has recognized Foley Hoag’s M&A practice in the areas of Venture Capital/Emerging Companies and also as a top general M&A firm in the northeast. Partners Arlene Bender, Bill Kolb, Nicola Lemay and Peter Rosenblum are cited for particular strengths in their practices including IT, life sciences, and renewable energy.

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Foley Hoag LLP’s Life Sciences practice recently launched its second Terms and Trends in Patent Licensing Agreements survey for 2008. As a service to the life sciences industry, the survey will again explore the forces, dynamics, and trends driving licensing deals between academic and private research institutions and the companies seeking to commercialize their discoveries.

Pending response rates, the survey results will be initially announced at BIO 2008 in San Diego, with a formal close of the survey to be announced at a later date. To complete the survey click here, contact Natalie Shaw at 617-832-7102 or visit Foley Hoag at BIO 2008, booth 3213.

Foley Hoag’s Life Sciences Practice provides a full range of services including patent litigation, prosecution and strategy; corporate finance and securities; mergers, acquisitions and strategic alliances; FDA and reimbursement; government strategies; venture capital and emerging companies, and product liability and complex tort.

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Foley Hoag recently joined a select group of clean energy executives, opinion leaders, and public policy officials at the unveiling of the Clean Jobs Act. The unveiling, led by Massachusetts Speaker of the House, Salvatore F. DiMasi, is considered a major step forward for clean energy investment in Massachusetts.

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In an unprecedented case in which a pair of Venezuelan mining companies sought more than $200 million from the Venezuelan government in compensation for giving up their concessions to a dam project, a federal judge in the Southern District of New York has dismissed the plaintiffs’ suit, citing lack of jurisdiction – as well as evidence that an apparent agreement between the parties to transfer jurisdiction to the United States was fraudulent.

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The Republic of Ecuador has filed suit at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, the Netherlands, against the government of Colombia, in an effort to stop or restrict aerial anti-coca spraying that has allegedly sickened people on the Ecuadorean side of the border and harmed livestock, farmland, and sensitive, ecologically diverse jungle areas.

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The Northeast Energy and Commerce Association (NECA), the largest energy trade association in New England, recently elected Foley Hoag Partner Mary Beth Gentleman as Vice President of Administration.

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Multicultural Law addresses diversity in the legal profession by encompassing power, leadership, and integrity. Multicultural Law is a breath of fresh air for the legal community. Our readers are accomplished lawyers in need of advice, information, and motivation that Multicultural Law provides.

Multicultural Law is in its third year and has a circulation of over 40,000 professionals in the legal community. Distribution includes a variety of legal organizations, such as the National Bar Association, National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, and the National Hispanic Bar Association. Multicultural Law is mailed to every fortune 500 and 1000 General Counsel Office and ABA Accredited Law School Career Office.

An alphabetical listing of The Top 100 Law Firms for Diversity is available at www.multiculturallaw.com.

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Foley Hoag client Expansion Capital Partners, LLC, recently announced the final closing for the firm’s Clean Technology Fund II, LP with more than $100,000,000.

Founded in early 2002, Expansion Capital was the first fund focused exclusively on expansion-stage, CleanTech equity investments. Clean Technology Fund II is backed by the founding families of a dozen Fortune 1000 companies, numerous family foundations, several corporate strategic investors and leading financial institutions.

About Expansion Capital Partners, LLC

Founded in 2002, Expansion Capital Partners, LLC, invests venture capital into the equity of expansion-stage, Clean Technology enterprises. The firm targets companies that offer dramatic improvements in resource efficiency and productivity, while creating more economic value with less energy and materials, or less waste and toxicity. The fund invests across the CleanTech sector including innovations in energy, advanced materials, water and waste water, manufacturing and transportation. Expansion Capital has offices in San Francisco and New York. For more information visit www.expansioncapital.com.

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The original version of this release is available here: http://www.crameronline.com/news/10302007.html

Cramer, a digital marketing and event solutions agency, announced today that the company has completed the reintroduction of Foley Hoag’s web site, www.foleyhoag.com. The new site supplements Foley Hoag’s recently launched identity and advertising campaign, featuring the tagline “Driving Business Advantage.” The cross-media campaign expands the firm’s brand by highlighting Foley Hoag’s expertise in a number of key legal practice areas including dispute resolution and intellectual property, as well as depth in the life sciences and technology industries.

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The Center for Business Intelligence is pleased to announce that Foley Hoag LLP will be presenting a session at the Forum on Effective Patent, IP and Trademark Strategies for the Bio/Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Industries

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The Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center (MTTC), the Massachusetts Hydrogen Coalition, and the MIT Enterprise Forum in conjunction with major sponsoring organizations, announce the third annual Conference on Clean Energy at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, October 29-30, 2007.

This year’s conference, the third annual event, brings together the latest technologies, leading CEOs, inventors and entrepreneurs who bring them to life, investment perspectives, and employers, all focused on accelerating the commercial success of their companies and the key issues facing the cleantech/greentech industry.

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Law firm Foley Hoag LLP has introduced an ambitious new identity and advertising campaign, highlighting its leading dispute resolution and intellectual property practices and its depth in life sciences and technology. Featuring the tagline “Driving Business Advantage,” Foley Hoag’s new platform is designed to bypass conventional law firm messaging to address client demands from their legal advisors for fresh thinking and a keen understanding of client business needs.

The creative centerpiece of the campaign is a series of ads featuring images by noted fashion photographer Rodney Smith, whose work has appeared in New York Magazine and The New York Times Magazine. Instead of touting case wins or deals completed, the ads – comprised of arresting black-and-white images of formally dressed men and women in unlikely settings – are meant to provoke business people to stop and consider how they view big-picture challenges and plot their paths to success.

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Foley Hoag LLP announced that well-known patent litigator Donald R. Ware became chair of the firm's expanded Intellectual Property Group and Dana Gordon, a registered patent attorney and scientist, became deputy chair.

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Foley Hoag congratulates 29 lawyers in the firm who were recently named to the 2007 list of Massachusetts Super Lawyers: Rising Stars. Rising Stars are lawyers in practice up to ten years and/or under 40 years of age. The group is nominated by the current roster of Massachusetts Super Lawyers and then voted on by the publishers of Law & Politics.

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Foley Hoag LLP congratulates the winners of the 2007 Ignite Clean Energy (ICE) Business Presentation Competition held earlier this month. Winners of this year's competition were chosen from a pool of 61 teams, a 50% increase in entries over 2006.