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Michael D. Beauvais
Partner
Ropes & Gray
One International Place
Boston, MA 02110-2624
T + 1-617-951-7601
F + 1-617-235-0641
+ 1-617-854-2193 secretary
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Practice
Michael Beauvais is a partner in the Corporate Department at Ropes & Gray and a member of the firm's Life Sciences and Health Care Practice Groups.
Professional Experience
Michael has extensive experience representing investment banks and issuers in connection with public and private offerings, including IPOs, follow on offerings, shelf offerings, and PIPE transactions, focusing primarily on transactions involving health IT, biotechnology, pharmaceutical and medical device companies. He also represents private companies in connection with financings, strategic acquisitions, collaborations, IT licensing, and all aspects of securities law compliance and corporate governance issues.
In addition to for-profit transactional work, Michael regularly counsels academic medical centers, health systems and community hospitals on a wide range of matters, including strategic affiliations, joint ventures, licensing, and general regulatory and compliance matters. He has specific expertise in the area of licensing and implementing interoperable health information technology (HIT) and electronic health record (EHR) systems.
Representative transactions include:
- Lead counsel to the underwriters in connection with initial public offerings by Medidata, athenahealth, MedAssets, and Synta Pharmaceuticals;
- Representation of public biopharmaceutical company in connection with shelf financings and subsequent reverse merger.
- Representation of a public biotechnology company in connection with multiple PIPE transactions.
- Representation of a private medical device company in connection with an initial public offering.
- Representation of a private disease management company in connection with strategic acquisitions and several rounds of venture company backed financings.
- Representation of a major children’s hospital in connection with strategic affiliations.
- Representation of an academic medical center in connection with the negotiation and implementation of system-wide electronic medical record software.
Memberships & Affiliations
- American Bar Association
- American Health Lawyers Association
Bar Admissions
Education
- 1999,
J.D., Georgetown University Law Center; Student Editor-in-Chief of The Tax Lawyer, the American Bar Association's official journal on taxation
- 1996,
B.A., cum laude, College of the Holy Cross
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