Stephen Marcovich

Professional Summary:                                                

Corporate lawyer specializing in mergers and acquisitions, corporate and commercial finance, venture capital fund formation and investment, commercial contracting and technology development, protection and commercialization in several industry sectors including the biotechnology, healthcare and the computer software and services industries. 

Professional Experience:

January, 2008 to Present; General Counsel: Acting as outside general counsel for domestic and international technology companies rendering corporate legal services including services with respect to corporate governance, corporate and commercial finance, mergers and acquisitions and technology development, protection and commercialization matters.

March, 2010 to July, 2014; Vice President and General Counsel: Legal officer and advisor to Vindicet LLC., a computer software and services start-up company, offering patient admission, evaluation and analysis computer software systems to health care facilities.

December, 2006 to December, 2007; Donovan Hatem LLP: Chairman of the firm’s Corporate Law Group with offices in Boston and New York and resident in the Boston office.  The firm’s Corporate Law Group principally focused on representing companies with respect to: (i) corporate governance; (ii) corporate finance, including venture capital and other private equity financing; (iii) commercial finance, including secured bank credit facilities and subordinated indebtedness transactions; (iv) mergers and acquisitions, recapitalization transactions and business divestitures; (v) technology matters, including technology development, protection and licensing; (vi) commercial expansion matters, including joint ventures, strategic alliances and distributorships; (vii) forms of standard commercial agreements for use in a company’s business; (viii) employment matters, including executive and other employee compensation plans, equity participation plans, employment agreements, severance and separation agreements and employee policies and procedures manuals and (ix) regulatory compliance, including securities laws compliance. 

April, 2006 to December, 2006; General Counsel:  Performed outside general counsel services for two biotechnology companies, one medical examiner computer software company and one manufacturer and distributor of sportswear; including corporate governance,  mergers and acquisitions and technology licensing services.

December, 2003 to April, 2006; Pullman & Comley, LLC:  Member in the Corporate Department and resident in the Stamford, Connecticut office.  Primary professional activities included (i) acting as outside general counsel for several clients and rendering legal advice regarding various business issues including intellectual property, employment, taxation, litigation prevention and proceedings and commercial real estate, (ii) negotiating and documenting mergers and acquisitions representing purchasers and sellers in leveraged and nonleveraged transactions, (iii) representing corporate issuers of debt and equity to venture capital funds, (iv) representing corporate borrowers in domestic and foreign commercial finance transactions, (v) representing licensors and licensees in the development, protection  and commercialization of technology, (vi) representing suppliers and purchasers in commercial contracting transactions for products and services, (vii) preparing executive compensation and incentive plans and (viii) providing corporate governance advice to boards of directors.

January, 1996 to December, 2003; Cummings & Lockwood:  Partner in the Corporate Department resident in the Stamford, Connecticut office.  Primary professional activities included (i) acting as outside general counsel for several clients and rendering legal advice regarding various business issues including intellectual property, employment, taxation, litigation prevention and proceedings and commercial real estate, (ii) representing venture capital funds in their formation and fund raising process, (iii) representing venture capital funds regarding majority and minority equity and debt investments in their portfolio companies, (iv) negotiating and documenting domestic and foreign mergers and acquisitions representing purchasers and sellers in leveraged and nonleveraged transactions, (v) representing licensors and licensees in the development, protection and commercialization of technology and (vi) representing suppliers and purchasers in commercial contracting transactions for products and services.

June, 1994 to January, 1996; Schatz Schatz & Ribicoff and Kotkin:  Partner in the Corporate Department resident in the Stamford, Connecticut office.  Primary professional activities included (i) acting as outside general counsel for several clients and coordinating legal advice regarding various business issues and (ii) negotiating and documenting mergers and acquisitions representing purchasers and sellers in leveraged and nonleveraged transactions.

April, 1988 to June, 1994; Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts:  Associate in the Corporate Department resident in the Stamford, Connecticut office.

March, 1983 to April, 1988; Cummings & Lockwood: Associate in the Corporate Department resident in the Stamford, Connecticut office.

October, 1975 to January, 1983; Business Positions:  Positions of increasing responsibility commencing as a market research analyst for a subsidiary of Houghton Mifflin Publishing Company, followed by a market research analyst and a project manager for Hilti Corp. and a market planning analyst and a manager of acquisitions for a subsidiary of The Dun & Bradstreet Company.

Academic Professional Experience:

August, 2009 to 2013: Quinnipiac University School of Law: Adjunct Professor of Law; “Acquisitions and Reorganizations” course.