Theodore C. Theofrastous has extensive experience in the field of high technology commercialization and investment, both as a business architect and as an attorney. Ted counsels clients in legal and business issues across a range of technologies – including healthcare, IT, communications, alternative energy and nanotechnology – routinely focusing the creation of sustainable business and transactional structures that yield long-term returns on investment.
Ted also works with non-profits and research institutions to create and implement sustainable governance and policy structures aimed at realizing strategic organizational priorities. He has extensive experience in technology transfer in the non-profit environment where he has counseled large institutional clients on the development of legally compliant approaches to industry funded research, licensing and equity transactions.
Prior to co-founding his legal practice and ThetaSquared (an affiliated technology strategy consulting firm), Ted served as managing director and fund counsel for Panzica Investments, where he created and managed a portfolio of new and existing technology startup investments. Before Panzica, Ted served as Chief Commercialization Counsel at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation (“CCF”) where he managed a diverse IP portfolio and handled numerous startup venture financings designed to commercialize CCF life science technologies. Ted’s roles related to the technology ventures he works with typically include business and legal structuring, operational planning, development of intellectual property strategies and the structure and negotiation of financial investments.
Before joining CCF, Ted practiced in the Cleveland and London offices of the law firm of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P., where his primary practice focused on the nexus of investment capital and technology. At Squire Sanders and CCF, he handled matters ranging from high tech start-up ventures to multi-billion dollar domestic and off-shore private equity fund offerings
Practice areas
Extensive experience in the field of high technology commercialization, both as a business architect and as an attorney. I work across a range of technologies — including healthcare, IT, communications and alternative energy — routinely focusing the creation of sustainable economic impact through large and small scale initiatives.
23 years, 30 cases
For profit and non-profit corporate counsel.
23 years, 50 cases
Early stage, start-up and pre-revenue representation.
23 years, 50 cases
Languages spoken
English
State | Status | Acquired | Updated |
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OH | Active | 1999 | 07/24/2022 |
Legal answers | 0 |
Legal guides | 0 |
Title | Company name | Duration |
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Founder | The Law Offices of T.C. Theofrastous | 2009 - Present |
Founder | ThetaSquared, LLC | 2007 - Present |
Adjunct Professor | Case Western Reserve University | 1999 - Present |
Chief Commercialization Counsel | The Cleveland Clinic Foundation | 2002 - 2005 |
Associate | Squire Sanders & Dempsey, LLP | 1999 - 2003 |
Association name | Position name | Duration |
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Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association | Member | 2013 - Present |
The Greater Cleveland International Lawyers' Group | Vice President | 1999 - Present |
Ohio State Bar Association | Member | 1999 - Present |
American Bar Association | Member | 1999 - Present |
Publication name | Title | Date |
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Canada-United States Law Journal | Financing Innovation: Investment in Development and Marketing of New Technology, Venture Capital, and Other Aspects of Innovation | 2006 |
Canada-United States Law Journal | Security and the Economy: The North American Computer and Communication Infrastructure | 2003 |
Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law | From Nuremberg to Rome: A Step Backward for US Foreign Policy | 1999 |
Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law | International Commercial Arbitration in Europe: Subsidiary and Supremacy in Light of the De-localization Debate | 1999 |
School name | Degree | Graduated |
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Case Western Reserve University | law | 1999 |
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