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.

News more

  • Visit Foley Hoag LLP's New Emerging Enterprise Center Web site  [Read More]
  • Best Lawyers in America Names 27 Foley Hoag Lawyers to 2010 Guide  [Read More]
  • Foley Hoag Client Advanced Electron Beams Closes Series C Financing  [Read More]
  • India Business Law Journal Lists Foley Hoag Among Top International Advisors for India-Related Legal Work  [Read More]

Publications more

  • New H-1B Filings for FY 2011 Begin April 1st [Read More]
  • Biotech Patent Held Invalid For Failing to Disclose Preferred Host Cells [Read More]
  • Employment Bulletin - March 3, 2010 [Read More]
  • SEC Adopts Enhanced Proxy Statement Disclosures Focusing on Compensation and Governance [Read More]
  • SEC Adopts New Short Selling Rule [Read More]

Events more

March 25, 2010 Registered Investment Advisors and the Amended Custody Rules [Read More] Online (Webinar)
May 20, 2010 13th 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]
  • Massachusetts Hydrogen Coalition
    We serve as general counsel to the Massachusetts Hydrogen Coalition, helping this dynamic organization on such matters as incorporation, entity selection and tax strategy. [Read More]