Joseph F. Sullivan, Jr.

Joseph F. Sullivan, Jr., a member/shareholder and former President and Chief Executive Officer of the firm (1995-2005), concentrates his practice on corporate securities, commercial and financial matters. He is an honors graduate of both Boston College Law School (J.D.) (Law Review; Order of the Coif) and Brown University (A.B.). His practice embraces all aspects of the organization and operation of corporations, limited liability companies and other business entities, securities law (including private placements and public offerings), corporate finance, mergers, and acquisitions, contracts and commercial real estate. He acts as counsel and overall transaction advisor in connection with public offerings, venture capital and other private placements, mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, recapitalizations, joint ventures, strategic alliances, divestitures, intellectual property and commercial real estate transfers and other complex commercial transactions. He represents firms, investors and entrepreneurs in numerous businesses including venture capital, computer software, informational services, marketing, commercial real estate and manufacturing. He has served as secretary and/or director of a number of public and private companies. Mr. Sullivan is a member of the American and Massachusetts Bar Associations, the Business Section of the ABA and the Massachusetts Interactive Media Council (MIMC). He has two children and lives in Kittery Point, Maine, with his wife Katherine.


Joseph F. Sullivan, Jr. is one of the elite lawyers in Massachusetts according to Super Lawyers, a joint publication of Boston Magazine and Law & Politics. His peers in Boston and throughout Massachusetts individually chose Mr. Sullivan as an outstanding attorney and legal counsel.