Corporate Income Tax Litigation and Transactions: Richard has significant experience with all major areas of corporate income tax, advising clients on complex issues such as nexus, apportionment, addbacks, transfer pricing, and combination . He represents clients on transfer pricing and alternative apportionment issues in various states, including Alabama, Louisiana, and South Carolina. He also regularly works with clients to evaluate and efficiently structure state income and franchise tax related to mergers, acquisitions, and other strategic transactions.

Sales Taxes and Company Business Models: Richard advises clients on sales tax issues that are affecting their overall business models, helping companies structure transactions to mitigate sales tax exposure, which often results in significant savings. As states increasingly expand the taxation of software, digital products, and services, he assists companies in identifying and managing their exposure to such taxes, particularly in advance of mergers, acquisitions, and other liquidity events.

Personal Income Tax Residency: Richard routinely advises clients on residency for various states, including New York, Massachusetts, California, and Illinois

Speeches and Publications: Richard frequently speaks on state and local tax issues and has presented before organizations such as the NYU SPS Annual Institute on State and Local Taxation, the Council On State Taxation, the Tax Executives Institute, and the Practising Law Institute. He also publishes frequently on state and local tax topics, with articles appearing in several publications, including Tax Notes State, Bloomberg BNA Weekly State Tax Report, Bloomberg BNA Multistate Tax Report, Tax Executive, Journal of State Taxation, Boston Business Journal, and NYU SPS Annual Institute on State and Local Taxation.

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Brian regularly counsels emerging companies, particularly in the life sciences and technology fields, from start-up through seed, debt and equity financings, commercial contracts, acquisitions and dispositions. He also acts as outside general counsel to a number of companies.

Brian’s international experience includes transactions involving businesses in Asia, Europe and Central America.

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After earning his law degree, Charlie clerked for the Honorable Charles R. Breyer of the US District Court for the Northern District of California. Prior to law school, Charlie served on the professional staff of the United States Senate Finance Committee for Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, where he concentrated on health reform and Medicare Part A. He also worked as a policy analyst at the Jackson Hole Group, where he focused on rural healthcare and purchasing cooperatives.

Charlie is partner-in-charge of the firm’s Boston Health Industry Advisory Practice Group and co-leader of its hospitals and health systems practice.

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• Assisted multiple ACOs with formation and Medicare approval 

• Successful consolidation of a physician group with more than 700 members 

• Multiple successful hospital mergers and acquisitions

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Representative clients include the Best Buy Health, OMERS Private Equity, Modernizing Medicine, Nuance Communications, American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), Stanford University, Physicians’ Organization at Children’s Hospital (Boston), Cape Cod Healthcare, Summit Partners and Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ).

Stephen has practiced health law since 1988 in Boston, Massachusetts, and in Palo Alto, California. In Palo Alto, he provided on-site counsel to Stanford University Medical Center. Among other accomplishments at Stanford, Stephen participated in the negotiations for the affiliation between Stanford Health Services and Lucile Salter Packard Children’s Hospital. He lectures extensively on healthcare technology privacy/HIPAA and related security matters, digital health, collaborative transformations, data mining, clinical research and product/disease registries as well as electronic health record implementation. Stephen has been featured on National Public Radio’s syndicated program Here and Now and has been quoted by The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post on medical privacy issues.

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• Advises the Physicians’ Organization at Children’s Hospital (Boston), umbrella organization over 15 specialty foundations on various governance, operational and regulatory matters for the #1 rated children’s hospital in United States
• Outside counsel to the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (MAeHC) on its implementation of its nationally recognized pilot program with Blue Cross of Massachusetts to implement electronic health records and health information in three communities, involving 600 clinicians and several hospitals, in addition to advising on the implementation of MAeHC’s Quality Data Warehouse and the provision of these services to numerous health systems
• Advises Realized Care (f/k/a BehaVR), a virtual reality company focused on utilizing new technology to for anxiety regulation, pain management and maternal health.
• Serves as outside counsel to major companies concerning privacy, security, HIPAA and other data-related matters, in the regulatory, compliance and merger/acqusition contexts

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• Who’s Who Legal: Healthcare 2021
• US Healthcare Expert Guide, EuroMoney Legal Media Group
• Boston Magazine, Massachusetts Super Lawyer

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• Represented NOAL SCSp, managed by BRG Asset Management, in the sale of French pharmaceutical group Laboratoire XO SA
• Represented Alsco Inc. in the acquisition of CLEAN Linen Services
• Representing Irving Oil in its acquisition of the Whitegate oil refinery, County Cork, Ireland
• Represented Irving Oil in establishing its gasoline blending operations in the Port of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• Represented Olam International in its acquisition of Archer Daniels Midland Company’s global cocoa business amongst other transactions in Africa, Europe and Russia for the client
• Represented Medtronic plc in its acquisition of the medical device group Aircraft Medical
• Represented the shareholders on the sale of the Nigerian aluminium packaging group Alucan
• Represented the founder of WorldCheck in its sale to Insight and subsequent sale to Thomson Reuters
• Represented Volution SA in its reverse takeover of Nasdaq listed Celsus Therapeutics PLC to become Akari Therapeutics PLC

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• IFLR1000, Energy & Infrastructure Sub-Saharan-Africa Guide 2014

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