Foley Hoag’s Business Department provides comprehensive legal services to a broad range of clients. We develop relationships with our clients so we understand their business goals and challenges. This allows us to use our experience and legal skills to add value to our clients’ enterprises. We counsel corporate decision-makers, and support them in their efforts to enhance profitability and organizational effectiveness. We seek to achieve solutions that achieve our clients’ goals in a creative cost-effective manner, even when that means finding outcomes that do not fit conventional or established forms. learn more

News more

  • Foley Hoag Wins Dismissal of Suit against Venezuelan Government that Hinged on Energy Minister’s Forged Signature  [Read More]
  • Foley Hoag Represents Ecuador in Suit against Colombia, Seeking to Stop Aerial Coca Spraying That Has Dispersed into Ecuador, Sickening Villagers and Livestock, Damaging Croplands and Poisoning Ecosystems  [Read More]
  • Foley Hoag Selected as one of 2008 Top 100 Law Firms for Diversity  [Read More]
  • Bruce Quinn, MD, PhD Joins the Foley Hoag Government Strategies Practice as Health Policy Specialist  [Read More]
  • Foley Hoag Lawyers Help Venezuela Obtain Victory in ICSID Arbitration Brought By Dutch Company  [Read More]

Publications more

  • New IRS Annual Information Return Required for Small Tax-Exempt Organizations – Form 990-N (e-Postcard) [Read More]
  • Auditor Liability in Securities Litigation from a Defensive Perspective [Read More]
  • Prescription Drug Pedigree: Proliferation of State Laws Calls for Federal Action [Read More]
  • The Benefits of Patent Marking – And of Getting It Right [Read More]
  • Health Canada Releases Draft Biosimilar Approval Guidance [Read More]

Events more

May 9, 2008 ABCs of Investment Adviser Regulation 2008 [Read More] Practising Law Institute
New York, NY
May 15, 2008 Skidmore Business Network presents Richard Laxer, '83 ~ President and CEO, GE Capital Solutions [Read More] Emerging Enterprise Center at Foley Hoag
Waltham, MA
May 20, 2008 Deciphering the Funding Value-Chain: How Seed Capital Scroungers Become Bankers' Best Friends [Read More] Emerging Enterprise Center at Foley Hoag
Waltham, MA
May 21, 2008 Shining the Light on You: Catching the Interest and Capturing Investment Dollars in Today's Turbulent Markets for Small and Microcap Companies [Read More] Emerging Enterprise Center at Foley Hoag
Waltham, MA
May 22, 2008 11th Annual Labor and Employment Law Seminar [Read More] Sheraton Needham Hotel
Needham, MA

Client Successes more

  • Foley Hoag Clears Way for Senior Financial Services Executive
    In one of the few decisions in the country on the enforceability of “garden leave” notice provisions, lawyers in Foley Hoag’s Litigation Department recently secured a favorable outcome for a senior-level financial executive whose former employer sought to block his departure from the company. In a recent ruling by Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton, U.S. District Judge for the District of Massachusetts, the employer’s motion for a preliminary injunction was denied. Partners Michael Boudett and Michael Rosen represented the client, the former head of the Boston office of Bear Stearns. Bear Stearns alleged that the executive violated his employment contract by failing to give 90-days’ notice before departure and by seeking to persuade clients and staff to follow his move to a competitor. In the ruling, Judge Gorton noted that plaintiff’s allegations of misappropriation of confidential information and interference with contractual and business relationships was unsubstantiated. Further, the Foley Hoag team was successful in proving that Bear Stearns would not be subject to irreparable harm with the departure of this executive. Widely covered by national financial media, the case is now pending before an arbitration panel before the Financial Industry Regulatory Association (FINRA). [Read More]
  • Driving the Successful Sale of Technology
    We recently facilitated the sale of a public software company for more than $900 million of its acquirer’s stock, and the sale of a leading developer of CAD/CAM software to a French company for stock worth approximately $320 million. [Read More]