Practice Focus
Frederic Marx is the head of the Business Law Group at Hemenway & Barnes and has concentrated his practice on four principal areas:
- Businesses involved in the technology, software, healthcare, and financial services sectors. Clients range from development stage entrepreneurial ventures to publicly held corporations. Fred has represented clients on a wide variety of issues, including technology development and licensing, venture capital and equity financing, strategic partnerships and alliances, mergers and acquisitions, business planning, securities law, taxation, and intellectual property issues.
- Nonprofit organizations in the healthcare, education, cultural and social services sectors
- Significant family groups in strategic and tax planning for their business and multigenerational long-term objectives
- Investment advisors in connection with formation, operations, succession planning, fund creation and management and SEC compliance
Representative Experience
- Lead counsel for clients in acquisition transactions with values of $10 million to $80 million
- Lead outside counsel for international healthcare data technology client for all technology strategic partnerships in North America
- General counsel for investment fund engaged in national and international transactions
- General counsel to $200 million multigenerational family holding company
- General counsel to the largest Medicaid HMO in Massachusetts
- General counsel to leading registered investment advisors in Massachusetts
- Member of Board of Managers of international investment fund
Activities and Publications
- Chairman of the Business Law Section of the Massachusetts Bar Association for two terms
- Chairman of the Boston Bar Association's Committee on Massachusetts Securities Law and a member of its Corporate Law Committee
- Chairman of the Massachusetts Bar Association Nonprofit Organization Committee
- Contributing author for Massachusetts Business Lawyering and the editor of Massachusetts Nonprofit Organizations, both published by Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education
Community Involvement
- Actively engaged in assisting and advising nonprofit organizations
- Recipient of the Boston Bar Association's Denis Maguire Pro Bono Award
- Served on many boards of nonprofit organizations in Massachusetts, including The New England Conservatory, the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and the South End Community Health Center
- Former Chairman of the Board of Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts and The Support Center of Massachusetts
