Feudo

Christopher Feudo

Partner
Co-Chair, Labor & Employment Practice
Boston

Every day, I help employers across many industries solve complex, challenging problems related to their workforces.

Chris Feudo represents and counsels employers in all aspects of labor and employment law. He defends clients against discrimination and harassment claims and represents clients in union, wage and hour, and contractual disputes. 

Chris regularly represents employers in federal and state courts, before administrative agencies such as the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and before alternative dispute resolution organizations such as JAMS and the American Arbitration Association. He has defended employers against numerous discrimination, harassment, and retaliation complaints as well as in wage and hour litigation and investigations. Chris has also represented employers in complex contractual disputes, including litigation over non-competition agreements and in disputes over the misappropriation of trade secrets and confidential information. In addition, he represents employers in labor relations matters, including before the National Labor Relations Board with respect to representation petitions and unfair labor practice charges. 
 
Chris regularly helps clients negotiate and draft complex employment agreements, including agreements for high-level executives, and advises them on the creation and implementation of workplace policies that comply with state and federal employment laws. 
 
Boston Magazine named Chris as a Top Lawyer in Employment each year since 2021. Chris also has been selected as a Super Lawyer in the areas of Employment & Labor since 2018 and listed in the 2023 and 2024 editions of The Best Lawyers in America.

Education

  • Boston University School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2007
  • Brown University, A.B., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 2002

Bar and Court Admissions

BAR ADMISSIONS
  • Massachusetts
COURT ADMISSIONS
  • U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

 

Experience

  • Represented Aggreko Energy Transition Solutions – a division of Aggreko, a global leader in energy solutions – in its acquisition of Infiniti Energy, a premier U.S.-based commercial and industrial solar company, from Upper Bay Infrastructure Partners (Upper Bay)
  • Represented, Toposware, a developer of an interoperable blockchain ecosystem designed to tamper resistance and data privacy, in its sale to Turntable Merger Sub, Inc., a subsidiary of Polygon Labs Holdings (Cayman) Ltd.
  • Represented developer during negotiation for first project labor agreement (PLA) for the first commercial-scale offshore wind project in the United States
  • Successfully represented employer in lengthy civil investigation by the Attorney General’s office involving wage and hour claims
  • Successfully represented city and its mayor before Massachusetts Court of Appeal in appeal of dismissal of claims brought by former probationary police officer concerning termination of his employment
  • Won dismissal of disability discrimination lawsuit against energy company, with federal court ruling that unrestricted access authorization was an essential job function at a nuclear power plant (2015 WL 1456769)
  • Advised biotech company in connection with change-of-control agreements with executives which were triggered when company was acquired
  • Advised financial services company concerning complex employment and executive severance agreements, including plans to hire employees and groups of employees from competing firms
  • Obtained summary judgment in favor of employer in federal race and national origin discrimination case
  • Successfully moved to dismiss numerous contract and tort claims against local community access television provider by former employees
  • Obtained preliminary injunction preventing client's former employee from working with key client on behalf of competitor
  • Successfully represented national retailer in numerous discrimination cases before the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Other Publications

  • Chapter Co-Author, “Drafting Employment Documents in Massachusetts,” MCLE (June 2013)
  • Co-Author, “The Integrated Enterprise Test – New Developments in the ‘Single Employer’ Theory,” published in Massachusetts CLE materials for the MCLE seminar “Hot Topics in Employment Discrimination Law”  (February 2008)

Honors & Involvement

HONORS
  • Chambers USA: Labor & Employment (Massachusetts) (2026)
  • Best Lawyers 
    • Labor Law - Management (2023-2027)
    • Employment Law - Management (2025-2027)
    • Litigation - Labor and Employment (2027)
  • Massachusetts Super Lawyer: Employment & Labor (2018-2024)
  • Boston Magazine: Top Lawyer in Employment (2021)
INVOLVEMENT
  • Boston Bar Association, Former Co-Chair, Labor and Employment Steering Committee
  • American Bar Association, Labor and Employment Section, Member

Events

FDA and Life Sciences Summit Page
Foley Hoag Event 05/21/2024
Labor & Employment Seminar Page
Foley Hoag Event 05/18/2022
COVID-19 in the Digital Decade Page
Foley Hoag Event 10/27/2020
Returning to Work in the COVID-19 Era Page
Foley Hoag Event 05/26/2020
Labor & Employment Webinar Page
Foley Hoag Event 06/30/2016

Other Events

  • "SVB Flash Briefing: Staying Ahead of the Recent Silicon Valley Bank Developments," Foley Hoag webinar (March 2023)
  • “Back to Normal? Returning to In-Person Work,” Boston Bar Association Webinar (April 2021)
  • “Essential COVID-19 Questions and the Answers You Need,“ Webinar, TiE Boston, (March 2020) 
  • “The State and Federal Responses to Covid-19: What Massachusetts Employers Need to Know," Webinar, BBA - Boston Bar Association (March 2020)