Dean is Chair of the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions Practice. He focuses on executing buy- and sell-side middle-market mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions across a broad range of industries, including technology and software, health care, industrial and lighting, media and marketing, publishing, retail, financial services, and life sciences.
His experience includes strategic acquisitions, private equity transactions, management buyouts, cross-border deals, distressed sales, complex earn-out arrangements, equity and debt financings, recapitalizations, and other forms of capital-raising transactions. He also regularly counsels clients on general corporate and corporate governance matters, and has extensive experience counseling venture-backed emerging-growth companies.
Dean has represented the Healthcare and Lighting divisions of Philips Electronics North America Corporation, the North American operating company of Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV (NYSE: PHG), in connection with a number of middle-market transactions. He has also represented a middle market private equity firm in connection with a number of health care related transactions.
Dean has provided M&A counsel to Alloy, Inc., and executed dozens of transactions in the e-commerce and media and marketing industry, including transactions involving college and high school media, display media, advertising services, and social network marketing.
Dean has represented Reveal Imaging Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of explosive and other threat detection products and services, in connection with general corporate matters, corporate financing transactions, and its sale to Science Applications International Corporation (NYSE: SAI). He also provides general corporate and other representation to SiOnyx, Inc., which is commercializing a patented semiconductor process for use in next generation photonics and photovoltaic applications. He serves as outside general counsel to BatchBlue, LLC, a privately held contact management software company.
He has represented Commonwealth Capital Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on early- and growth-stage technology companies, in connection with various investments, as well as Pilot House Ventures, a Boston-based venture capital firm focused on investing in early-stage technology companies, in connection with various investments.
During law school, he served as an editor of the Suffolk University Law Review.
Representative Matters
- Represented Philips Electronics North America Corporation in the acquisition of a closely held manufacturer of energy-efficient lighting solutions
- Represented Philips Electronics North America Corporation in the acquisition of a provider of specialized lighting solutions for health care facilities from a Norwegian-based company
- Represented Philips Electronics North America Corporation in the acquisition of a Vienna-based sleep diagnostic business
- Represented Philips Electronics North America Corporation in the spin-out of a 3-D printing company
- Represented Philips Electronics North America Corporation in the acquisition of a therapeutic hypothermia solutions business
- Represented Philips Electronics North America Corporation in the acquisition of a privately held supplier of integrated solutions for management of lighting and energy usage
- Represented Philips Electronics North America Corporation in the acquisition of a privately held home health care related business
- Represented Philips Electronics North America Corporation in a joint development arrangement to explore the problem of infectious disease in critical care
- Represented Alloy, Inc. in its acquisition of the assets of TAKKLE.com
- Represented a Boston-based utility contractor in its sale to a middle-market private equity firm
Recognitions & Awards
- Massachusetts Super Lawyers: Mergers & Acquisitions (2011 – 2012)
- Massachusetts Super Lawyers: Rising Star – Mergers & Acquisitions (2005)
Dean is Chair of the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions Practice. He focuses on executing buy- and sell-side middle-market mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions across a broad range of industries, including technology and software, health care, industrial and lighting, media and marketing, publishing, retail, financial services, and life sciences.
His experience includes strategic acquisitions, private equity transactions, management buyouts, cross-border deals, distressed sales, complex earn-out arrangements, equity and debt financings, recapitalizations, and other forms of capital-raising transactions. He also regularly counsels clients on general corporate and corporate governance matters, and has extensive experience counseling venture-backed emerging-growth companies.
Dean has represented the Healthcare and Lighting divisions of Philips Electronics North America Corporation, the North American operating company of Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV (NYSE: PHG), in connection with a number of middle-market transactions. He has also represented a middle market private equity firm in connection with a number of health care related transactions.
Dean has provided M&A counsel to Alloy, Inc., and executed dozens of transactions in the e-commerce and media and marketing industry, including transactions involving college and high school media, display media, advertising services, and social network marketing.
Dean has represented Reveal Imaging Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of explosive and other threat detection products and services, in connection with general corporate matters, corporate financing transactions, and its sale to Science Applications International Corporation (NYSE: SAI). He also provides general corporate and other representation to SiOnyx, Inc., which is commercializing a patented semiconductor process for use in next generation photonics and photovoltaic applications. He serves as outside general counsel to BatchBlue, LLC, a privately held contact management software company.
He has represented Commonwealth Capital Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on early- and growth-stage technology companies, in connection with various investments, as well as Pilot House Ventures, a Boston-based venture capital firm focused on investing in early-stage technology companies, in connection with various investments.
During law school, he served as an editor of the Suffolk University Law Review.
Representative Matters
- Represented Philips Electronics North America Corporation in the acquisition of a closely held manufacturer of energy-efficient lighting solutions
- Represented Philips Electronics North America Corporation in the acquisition of a provider of specialized lighting solutions for health care facilities from a Norwegian-based company
- Represented Philips Electronics North America Corporation in the acquisition of a Vienna-based sleep diagnostic business
- Represented Philips Electronics North America Corporation in the spin-out of a 3-D printing company
- Represented Philips Electronics North America Corporation in the acquisition of a therapeutic hypothermia solutions business
- Represented Philips Electronics North America Corporation in the acquisition of a privately held supplier of integrated solutions for management of lighting and energy usage
- Represented Philips Electronics North America Corporation in the acquisition of a privately held home health care related business
- Represented Philips Electronics North America Corporation in a joint development arrangement to explore the problem of infectious disease in critical care
- Represented Alloy, Inc. in its acquisition of the assets of TAKKLE.com
- Represented a Boston-based utility contractor in its sale to a middle-market private equity firm
Recognitions & Awards
- Massachusetts Super Lawyers: Mergers & Acquisitions (2011 – 2012)
- Massachusetts Super Lawyers: Rising Star – Mergers & Acquisitions (2005)
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