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Locke Lord Office Hours: Quick and Free Legal Sessions

August 30, 2017

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Time: 10:00AM - 2:00PM       
Location: Jupiter
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Platinum Sponsor Locke Lord LLP is holding some quick legal lessons, and they want to offer you some legal insigts and free advice! Bring your funding, licensing, collaboration, and corporate structure questions with you when you sit down to meet with Locke Lord Partner, Jim Coffey. Jim has a wealth of knowledge in multiple legal disciplines, and would be happy to share about his work with the Boston Harbor Angels. Check out Jim's biography below. Email Luke to get connected and secure a meeting time. 

Biography: James F. Coffey

Jim Coffey is a Partner in the Boston office of Locke Lord LLP and Co-Chair of the Firm's Life Sciences group. He focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions and has significant experience in venture capital and corporate finance transactions. Jim has advised public and private companies, both domestically and overseas, in mergers and acquisitions, tender and exchange offers, public and private offerings, and in the formation of partnerships, joint ventures, and strategic alliances.

Jim has represented both borrowers and lenders in commercial loan transactions, as well as in distressed situations. He has served as lead counsel in corporate reorganizations, bankruptcies, workouts, receiverships, assignments for the benefit of creditors, distressed asset sales and in other complex corporate restructurings.

Jim has broad based experience representing companies in many business sectors including: life sciences, health care, banking and financial services, energy and utilities, digital media, information technology, manufacturing, food and beverage, and consumer products. Jim is a member of the Boston Harbor Angels, a prominent angel investment group, and draws upon his extensive business background in order to provide pragmatic solutions to client problems.

Jim is listed in The Best Lawyers in America for Mergers and Acquisitions and in the IAM Patent 1000. Jim has also been recognized in a survey of his peers as a Massachusetts "Super Lawyer" by Law and Politics magazine. Jim is AV® rated by the Martindale-Hubbell peer-review rating system.

Practices: James F. Coffey

  • Corporate
  • Global Investment
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Emerging Business
  • International Corporate & Commercial Transactions
  • Private Equity & Venture Capital
  • Small Business Investment Companies
  • Start-up Companies
  • Bankruptcy, Restructuring & Insolvency
  • Financial Services
  • Life Sciences
  • Life Sciences Transactional, IP & Regulatory Practice