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Stephen Ferruolo

Stephen Ferruolo, a partner in the Business Law Department and member of the Tech Companies & Life Sciences and M&A/Corporate Governance Practices and chair of Goodwin Proctor's San Diego office, has a practice focused on corporate finance and governance, and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Ferruolo has worked on public and private financings, acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic partnerships and technology licenses for companies in such fields as biotechnology, medical devices and diagnostics, software, CleanTech and telecommunications. Mr. Ferruolo has been selected for inclusion in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. He is a member of the American, California and San Diego Bar Associations. Mr. Ferruolo is currently the Vice President and General Counsel of BIOCOM and served as co-chair of the Program Committee for the 2008 BIO International Convention. He has also served on the Standing Program and Technology Transfer Committees for BIO.

Prior to joining Goodwin Procter in 2007, Mr. Ferruolo was Co-Chair of the Corporate/VLG Practice Group at Heller Ehrman LLP and a member of the Intellectual Property Transactions Practice Group. He previously served as Co-Chair of Heller Ehrman’s Life Sciences Practice Group. From 1979 to 1987, Mr. Ferruolo was an Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University. He also served as a clerk for the Honorable Bruce M. Selya of U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

Mr. Ferruolo has been recognized as a 2007 San Diego County Top Attorney, as selected by peers in San Diego’s legal community. In 2006, BIOCOM awarded him with the William W. Otterson Service Award, presented for outstanding support of the life sciences industry in San Diego.