Tom Ward is a partner in the Corporate Practice Group. His practice focuses on corporate and securities matters, with an emphasis on public and private offerings, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital work and international transactions.
Practice
Mr. Ward has extensive experience as both purchaser’s and seller’s counsel in mergers and acquisitions transactions. His mergers and acquisitions representations include:
Alantos Pharmaceuticals Holding in its acquisition by Amgen
Danaher Corporation in its tender offer and acquisition of Trojan Technologies
Empirix Inc. in its acquisition by Thoma Bravo
Kalido Inc. in its acquisition by Silverback Enterprise Group
MicroStrategy Incorporated in the sale of its Angel.com subsidiary to Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories
Neighborhood Diabetes, Inc. in its acquisition by Insulet Corporation
Mr. Ward has represented both issuers and underwriters in numerous public and private offerings, and has participated in offerings by both domestic and foreign issuers. His capital markets transactions have included:
Representation of Akamai Technologies in issuances of an aggregate of $400 million of convertible senior notes and common stock
Representation of Bacardi Limited in its equity investment in Leblon Holdings
Representation of Oclaro, Inc. in public and private offerings of more than $200 million of equity securities
Representation of LIN TV Corp. in issuances of an aggregate of $690 million of high yield debt and convertible debentures
Representation of VistaPrint in its $138 million initial public offering
Mr. Ward serves as outside counsel for a number of companies in the software, semiconductor and media sectors, including:
BE Semiconductor Industries N.V.
BinOptics Corporation
Boston Business Systems
MicroStrategy Incorporated
Panoratio Holdings, Inc.
Raptor Sports Properties
VistaPrint N.V.
Mr. Ward also has represented the National Football League and the National Hockey League in a variety of matters, including the NFL Sunday Ticket and NHL Center Ice broadcasting packages.
