An experienced business and transactional lawyer, Mike represents a wide range of life sciences, technology, digital media, and other innovation-based companies.
Mike’s practice is focused on licensing, strategic and business development transactions, and commercial transactions. He advises clients regarding clinical trial agreements; commercial agreements; strategic alliances, including alliances for co-discovery, co-development, and co-commercialization; intellectual property licenses, including licenses for compounds, processes, platforms, and software; industry collaborations, including manufacturing, formulation, and process collaborations; university collaborations, including clinical trial and other sponsored research agreements, and material transfer agreements; and distribution agreements.
Mike is one of a select group of attorneys to have participated in the National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps (I-Corps) program, which prepares scientists and engineers to extend their focus beyond the laboratory, and broadens the impact of particular, NSF-funded, basic-research projects.
A former in-house lawyer and business development and strategic alliances professional, Mike brings a practical perspective to clients’ legal issues with a keen understanding of the importance of agreements that facilitate rather than hinder business.
Representative Matters
Outside the Office
An ardent cyclist, Mike is an eleven-year veteran of the Pan Mass Challenge, a two-day, 192 mile charity bicycle ride for the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, in connection with which he has raised over $55,000, and he recently completed the Mt. Washington Auto Road Bicycle Hillclimb, referred to by many as the toughest bicycle hillclimb in the world.
Publications
Force Majeure in Light of the Coronavirus Outbreak
Open Source Issues in Mergers & Acquisitions
Developing an App? Make sure you own it!, Adobe Developer Connection
Patent Licensing Strategies After Medimmune, with Howard Zaharoff
Linden Lab’s ‘Second Life’ in a Catch-22 over virtual property, Boston Business Journal
Speaking Engagements
Speaker, Trends and Developments IP Counsel, Business Lawyers and Litigators Must Know, 21st Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference 2018
Moderator, An Ounce of Prevention: How Startups Can Avoid Legal Snafus
Presenter, Game Publishing 2.0, BBA Event
Presenter, Software Licensing: Battle of the Forms
Presenter, The Law of Digital Games
Moderator, Creative Communities: Building Games outside the Hub, MassDiGI symposium
Presenter, Anatomy of a Game Development Deal, Franklin M. Loew Lecture Series – Becker College
Presenter, Entertainment Law Practice in the Digital Age: New Developments, BBA Event
News & Insights
Morse Serves as Counsel to iRacing in Acquisition of NASCAR Team Properties License
M&A News: Morse Client Garvin Construction Products in Acquisition by Beacon
COVID-19 Resource Collection
Force Majeure in Light of the Coronavirus Outbreak
Data Privacy Bell Ringers
Client Alert – Happy Halloween!
Client Alert – Happy Halloween!
WISP – Written Information Security Program
Open Source Issues in Mergers & Acquisitions
Client Alert
IP News
Events
Show Me the Money: Bio Bucks, Royalties and Other Payment Structures in Strategic Alliances
2018 VC and M&A Forum
Encore Event! Strategic Alliances: Pot of Gold or Pretty Poison?
Strategic Alliances: Pot of Gold or Pretty Poison? – Life Sciences Series – Panel 4
Money and Molecules: Early-Stage Life Science Financing
Funding Models in Biotech – Life Sciences Series – Panel 3
Laying the Foundation for Growth: Entity & Equity – Life Sciences Series – Panel 2
Building Your Product & Patent Strategy from the Ground Floor – Life Sciences Series – Panel 1
On Your Mark. Get Set. Grow!The Business Arc of a Sports Technology Startup
Risk Containment Strategies for Start-Ups