General Counsel and Business Transaction

• Aided the US subsidiary of a major publicly traded drug manufacturer in China to reduce two thirds of its workforce of about seventy employees.

• Assisted a bio-pharmaceutical client in a negotiation leading to a satisfactory settlement on an early termination of the office and laboratory lease with its landlord. 

• Represented a Chinese public company in its acquisition of equity worth $2,000,000 in a contract research organization in Massachusetts. 

• Assisted a cryptocurrency mining client in negotiating an agreement with a specialized energy consultant on purchasing energy from the energy service providers.

• Reinstated a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization’s compliance status with Massachusetts Attorney's Office and Internal Revenue Service when the nonprofit registration and tax exemption status have been out of compliance for five years. 

• Provided research for a client on legal procedures to comply with cannabis storage, analysis, processing, disposition and transportation. 

• Conducted due diligence and prepared a legal opinion for a Massachusetts subsidiary of PharmaEssentia Corp, a leading biopharmaceutical company’s $462,700,000 offering of global depositary shares.

• Represented a company in acquiring the assets from a recruiting agency in business for a decade.

• Advised a biotechnology startup client, who has since received multiple series of equity financings, on asset acquisitions and entity dissolution as well as a CFIUS analysis. 

• Represented a biotechnology startup to receive $9,000,000 pre-series A equity investment from a public company in Hong Kong and a private equity investor from Shanghai.

• Provided due diligence of multiple US subsidiaries of a pre-IPO company with $360,000,000 market cap and 28,000 employees publicly listed company on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. 

• Conducted a due diligence review of a large volume of documents of a biotechnology startup receiving series D investment from a consortium of private equity firms from Korea, Hong Kong and China.

• Represented a client on negotiating and entering an office lease for an annual rent of $600,000.

• Formed a series of private equity fund investing in real estate development, artificial intelligence, robotics, and biopharma.

• Represented a Chinese agricultural aviation business entering a joint venture with a flight school in Virginia.

• Represented a group of Chinese investors to purchase the assets of a medical device company developing a laser diagnosis device for lung cancer.

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Dispute Resolution/Litigation

• Working with a commercial tenant client defendant as its legal risk control manager together with its litigation counsel, to reach a satisfactory settlement result in about $2,000,000 while the client's exposure was approximately $8,000,000.

• Successfully settled for realtor and landlord a claim filed by a potential tenant for housing discrimination with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD).

• Won a three-day trial for a commercial landlord tenant eviction case at Boston Municipal Court, Roxbury Division.

• Won from the Court a decision for the client to enforce a settlement reached in the mediation but reneged by the opposing party the next day.

• Represented a lab equipment manufacturer and distributor to challenge a damage assessment by US Customs and Boarder Protection, successfully negotiating the damage down to 10% of the initial damage assessment.

• Represented the Massachusetts subsidiary of a Chinese daycare chain business in a commercial lease dispute and won a motion for a temporary restraining order and attachment of real property against the defendant landlord.

• Represented the principal owner to reach a settlement with another shareholder on a partner dispute in connection with the financial dealings and operation of a series of chain restaurants in Boston. 

• Represented clients on responding to investigations from and negotiating for settlement resolutions with Department of Energy, Department of Labor, and Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office.

• Represented a Chinese industrial component manufacturer against a distributor for a $7,000,000 litigation in Western District of New York, US District Court for breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty and misappropriation of trade secrets.  

• Won a unanimous jury verdict in the Federal District Court in Massachusetts for a litigation of multi-million dollars against multiple defendants for eleven causes of action.

• Represented two relief defendants to reach a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission, where clients had in their possession the alleged tainted assets of over $3,000,000 in cash and real property.   

• Represented a Chinese investment company in settling a close to $2,000,000 suit against multiple defendants in a residential real estate development project in Harwich, Cape Cod, involving defendants’ breach of contract, fraud, theft of corporate funds, breach fiduciary duty, and unjust enrichment.

• Represented a client on defending a partnership dispute and misrepresentation in connection with a $2,000,000 commercial real estate development and investment in New Bedford. Our representation ultimately resulted in the plaintiff’s dismissal of our defendant client in exchange for a negligible amount of settlement. 

• Represented multiple employees to settle with their employer for claims on unpaid salary, bonus, and overtime wages, for over $150,000. 

• Represented multiple defendants in settling a claim in a commercial contract dispute within three weeks after plaintiff’s filing of complaint, preliminary injunction, and trustee process for over $200,000. 

• Reached a settlement for an automobile equipment design and manufacturer with its Spanish distributor on a service contract suit litigated in the court for over two years.

• Represented a business defendant to have court deny a preliminary injunction enjoining our client a fencing coach from continuing the operation of his new club based on plaintiff’s alleged misappropriation of client contact information as trade secrets.

• Represented an heir of a Chinese citizen who died of cancer in Boston in a motion for relief for a probate proceeding regarding the deceased's substantial estate, and the court granted our motion to dismiss.