Bio

Stephen Honig practices a broad spectrum of business law, with emphasis on corporate, governance, mergers and acquisitions, securities laws and business planning. He is a member of the firm's Corporate, Life Sciences and Biotechnology, and Private Equity practice groups. Mr. Honig's career has reflected the technological orientation of the New England area. Today, many of his engagements are in the life sciences, and health care. He also counsels emerging enterprises, including those in life sciences and medical devices. His practice also includes working with founders and senior executives in wealth planning and the interface between their corporate and personal lives. Mr. Honig has effected transaction involving: medical data companies; biotech and medical device companies obtaining financing, through representation of both investors and entities; life science companies effecting mergers and acquisitions; contract research organizations expanding through CRO acquisition; financing and joint venturing by photovoltaics manufacturers; contracting for computer hardware and software on both sides of such transactions; manufacture and contracting for semi-conductors and circuit boards; contracting for SaaS service offerings; M&A in a wide variety of tech industries; representation of persons joining fiduciary or advisory boards in business or technological capacities; representation of boards of directors; representation of C-suite officers in contractual and equity negotiations; and, formation and structuring of entities for management, financial and international taxation advantage. Mr. Honig has served as president of a registered investment advisor, represented companies and underwriters in public offerings and private placements, represented broker-dealers and market makers, and effected the entry of banks into the securities business. Mr. Honig has served as trustee of family trusts and, in that capacity, has evaluated and supervised the investment of assets on behalf of the families. He also represents individual, institutional and venture capital investors in equity, debt and lease financings. In March 2011, Mr. Honig taught American business law and entrepreneurship at the University of Belgorod in Southwestern Russia. Mr. Honig has taught securities law and regularly lectures and writes on governance issues, shareholder disputes, cyber risk, securities law regulation, Sarbanes-Oxley, Dodd-Frank and the representation of senior executives in establishing compensation regimes in both public and private companies. Mr. Honig writes regularly on his blog, Law and Other Anomalies, which can be accessed at honiglawblog.com, where he addresses corporate, business and securities law issues. He served as regular columnist for almost two decades for InHouse, a newspaper directed to in-house corporate counsel. He has published five books, and serves as Advisory Board member to the New England Poetry Club (founded in 1913 by Amy Lowell and Robert Frost). Mr. Honig is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors and the Securities Law Committees of the Boston and Massachusetts Bar Associations. When serving as principal program director for the National Association of Corporate Directors in New England, he had designed and presented programs for directors and advisors to directors on matters of governance, director duties, boards in crisis, boards faced with regulatory issues, and the legal challenges facing directors under Delaware corporate and Federal securities laws. He is a 1966 graduate of Harvard Law School and holds his undergraduate degree from Columbia College.