James “Jamey” A. Wachta

• Served as special outside counsel to a Massachusetts hospital network (with Harvard teaching hospitals) in a variety of matters and transactions, including policy review and implementation, commercializing technology, licensing arrangements, clinical and sponsored-research issues and the review of consulting agreements for professional staff and employees.
• Represented a Harvard teaching hospital in the review and negotiation of numerous clinical trial agreements involving a variety of public and private pharmaceutical and medical device companies, as well as foundations and non-profit institutions.
• Represented a Boston hospital in its joint venture with another major Boston hospital and an HMO to capitalize and operate an ambulatory surgery center.
• Represented physicians and research scientists in all aspects of employment and consulting arrangements, including equity incentives and compensation, with public and private companies.
• Represented buyers and sellers, as well as CEOs and other management officers individually, in a wide variety of purchase and sale transactions (including mergers, acquisitions and related restructurings) of private companies and divisions of private and public companies.
• Represented manufacturing companies in financing facilities to obtain working capital.
• Served as outside general counsel to international life sciences clients in various transactions, including financing, mergers, licensing and sublicensing issues and general business and contractual issues.
• Served as outside general counsel to a specialized medical device company in a merger with an international public company, resolving many obstacles and resulting in a significant gain to the stockholders of the client.
• Advised and represented a state commissioner of insurance (as receiver) on corporate issues involved in the sale of companies, including negotiating with an international syndicate of creditors, managing relationships with investment bankers, dealings with the federal bankruptcy court and trustee, and advising on other general corporate, bankruptcy and securities matters.
• Participated in the reorganization, purchase, and sale of several insurance agencies and insurance company affiliates, including the sale of a major insurance company subsidiary, and other general corporate and securities matters.
• Spearheaded the sale of an insurance company’s affiliates and assets as part of representation of a foreign superintendent of insurance (as liquidator) in the liquidation of a multinational insurance company. Also advised the client on other related general corporate, liquidation, and securities matters.

Distinctions:

• Massachusetts Super Lawyers, 2004
• Lead Articles Editor, Washington & Lee Law Review

Admitted:

• Massachusetts
• New York

Member:

• American Bar Association (Past Co-Chair, Section of Science and Technology, Committee on Enterprise and Commercialization)
• Boston Bar Association
• Women’s Bar Association
• Civic Research Institute, Inc. (Past Advisory Board Member, “Technology Development and Transfer Report”)
• International Lawyers Network

When Jamey is not advising clients, he enjoys spending time with family, solving puzzles, and reading – especially historical novels. Jamey is also an Eagle Scout, which is a very difficult, rare and prestigious achievement. Within the Boy Scouts of America, only a small percentage of Scouts reach this rank.