Dave Broadwin

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Dave heads the Emerging Enterprise Center. His practice focuses on representation of technology companies from start up to exit. Dave also handles venture financings, merger and acquisition transactions, public offerings, private placements, PIPE transactions and executive employment contracts. Dave is a Partner at Foley Hoag and a member of the Executive Committee.

Practice Areas

  • Venture Capital & Emerging Companies
  • Corporate Finance & Securities
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Business
  • Life Sciences, Securities

Professional Associations

  • Boston Bar Association, Member

Education

  • Yale Law School, J.D., Editor, Yale Law Journal
  • University of Chicago, M.A.
  • New York University, B.A.

Bar Admissions

  • Massachusetts

Publications

  • Books:
    • Negotiating and Documenting Business Acquisitions - ALI-ABA (1997)
    • Editor, Buying and Selling Closely-Held Businesses - MCLE (1997)
  • Articles:

For a comprehensive account of Dave's professional experience visit the Foley Hoag Web site.

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Posts By This Author

Dividends

All Hail Morty

More thoughts on understanding what is market

Fein Line Post

Still more on what is standard

What's market?

Following up on standards and forms

Negotiating and dealing with bullies

Negotiating and a good reason

What is and what is not standard

Older Entries

More on slavish devotion to legal forms

Legal forms and unintended consequences

Steve Jobs and the VC model

If you can't get what you want at least get what you need

There is no resisting the urge to write something about Twitter

The swing of the pendulum and the future of clean and green

Been down so long it looks like up to me

Been down so long it looks like up to me

Angel Investments: Convertible Notes versus Preferred Stock

IPOs are coming -- or so I am told

Entrepreneurs just keep on coming

Personal liability of directors under Delaware law

Understanding Venture Capital in China

April bringing signs of life?

Under the Radar Cloud Computing Conference

Par Value - what is it and why?

Salary deferrals have bad consequences

At least $250 million available for innovative broadband technologies and services to promote sustainable adoption

Clear sky for cloud computing

Option and percents

What happens to a noncompete when the company shuts its doors?

Ritual Wringing of Hands

What the SEC really does matters

HBS Business Plan Competition - back to basics?

New England & The Broadband Recovery Act

Converting from an LLC to a "C" Corp.

Silver lining

Venture Capital Returns

If you are a loser, should you pay?

Option repricing

Good housekeeping -- keep your legal house in order

ASAP, ASAP!, and ASAP!! - A lawyer's discoveries in management land

The End of Doom and Gloom

Options and 409A -- Sometimes the law is an ass

There is no excuse for not having fun

How to incorporate: "C" "S" or LLC?

More second order effects of the recession

Second order effects of the recession

When to shut down personal liability

What are you seeing?

What would you do?

There must be millions of NDAs out there, so go figure...

You've got an argument

Art and Business

Two Topics: Activity and Antidilution

Even More on Noncompete Agreements

Noncompetition Agreements - It doesn't matter what you think of them.

Where to Incorporate

The Trouble with Options

When to Incorporate

Why Incorporate

Traction - The "T" Word

What's Next in Social Media

Every Dark Cloud has some Silver Somewhere in its Lining

IPO Watch

Yet More on Restricted Stock

Email and Document Retention

More Pitch Tips

More Deal Numbers

Multiple X Preferences

2009 Venture Funding Outlook

Email is Forever

Full Ratchet Antidilution

Madoff and the SEC

Weighted Average Antidilution

No Exits -- How to Make Exits

Dilution -- Financial and Ownership

What's in a Name?

More on Restricted Stock and 83(b)

Terms in Down Times

Angel Financing Thoughts

When You Find Yourself in a Workout Situation

Personal Liability

Surviving the downturn

TheFunded.com tips on Pitches

The Turnarounds are Coming

Startable's Tips on Pitches

More on Funding and M&A and IPO Exits

Funding and Exits

Further to Money on the Sidelines

CEO Breakfast with Don Bulens

East versus West

Congratulations to Viridity Software

Liability of Officers and Directors

Congratulations to Advanced Electron Beams

IPO and M&A Exits

Due Diligence from the VC Side

More on the Next Hot Thing

New Report on 2008 Second Quarter Series A Transactions in New England

Advisory Board Options

More on Pitches

The Next Hot Thing

Exits and the Financial Crisis

Restricted Stock versus Options

Money on the Sidelines

Angel Groups

Making a Pitch

Knowing Current Market Terms for Venture Investments