Lawyer Bio : Gregory M. Chabon

Greg provides counsel and advice to predominately privately-held businesses on a variety of transactional, corporate and commercial matters. His practice is focused on providing creative and efficient real-world solutions to clients’ business issues and opportunities in the following principal areas:

• Negotiating, documenting and closing complex business transactions, including strategic alliances and business acquisitions, mergers and divestitures;
• Structuring, negotiating and documenting technology licensing and supply arrangements in domestic and foreign markets, including high technology and internet-based businesses;
• Structuring and documenting capital raising and debt/equity investments for emerging companies; and
• Providing general business counsel to mid-market companies.

Greg has completed transactions ranging from $2mm to over $100mm in value, representing clients engaged in the design, manufacture, sourcing, marketing or distribution of software and technology services, textiles, sporting goods, specialty chemicals/industrial products, health care services and pharmaceutical products. Greg’s hands-on technical background provides a unique experience base in dealing with technology related or dependent companies. Prior to practicing law, Greg spent eleven years as an engineer involved in the development of tactical missile systems for the U.S. Armed Forces, and dealt with getting beyond state-of-the-art technology from the drawing board into production. This experience has proven valuable in structuring and negotiating licensing transactions for patented products and trade secrets in the furniture, software, specialty textiles and pharmaceutical hardware industries.

Representative Transactions

• Advising and completing asset purchase and sale transactions for, and providing general counsel to, a global market leader in industrial foams technology;
• Negotiating and completing pharmaceutical supply and joint venture arrangements, both domestic and international, for a leading producer of patented or proprietary encapsulated pharmaceutical and nutritional products;
• Representing a professional services and software developer in venture capital financings, merger transactions, securities compliance and providing general counsel;
• Representing a large physician practice in formation, corporate governance, general counsel, and health care matters.