Practice:

• Co-Chair, Life Sciences
• Corporate
• Intellectual Property / SciTech
• Science & Technology

Bar Admissions:

Massachusetts
U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Experience:

Mr. Belanger is a business and technology lawyer who represents middle-market and emerging businesses as general counsel, assists entrepreneurs in protecting intellectual property and starting business enterprises, and acts as special counsel in a variety of transactions. His industry experience includes biotechnology, software development and integration, advanced materials manufacturing, healthcare, construction, logistics, industrial equipment and distribution. His transactional experience includes software licensing and dispute resolution, technology research agreements and licensing, enterprise formation and equity offerings, venture capital investment, shareholder and partnership dispute resolution, employee stock ownership plan fiduciary issues and secured and unsecured corporate financings (including leveraged ESOP and project financings). Mr. Belanger's intellectual property practice principally involves technology transfer and licensing and protection of trade secrets, and he has represented both owners and licensees in university and general business settings. Mr. Belanger was formerly a partner at Peabody & Arnold LLP and Csaplar & Bok, before joining Burns & Levinson LLP in 2002.

Memberships:

• American Bar Association
• Association of University Technology Managers
• Boston Bar Association
• ESOP Association
• Massachusetts Bar Association
• National Center for Employee Ownership
• Order of the Coif, a national legal honor society

Additional Information:

• While at Boston College Law School he was Assistant Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review.

Education:

• J.D., Boston College Law School, magna cum laude, 1972
• A.B., the University of Notre Dame, 1965

Awards:

• Massachusetts Super Lawyer in 2004. The selection of attorneys is based on a poll and internal research done by Law & Politics Magazine and reviewed by an independent blue ribbon panel of their peers. Listed attorneys and finalists consist of the top 5% of attorneys in Massachusetts. The listing appeared in the November issue of Boston Magazine and in New England Super Lawyers Magazine.

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