Primary Job Title Board Member Primary Organization Jumpstart New Jersey Angel Network
Location Princeton, New Jersey, United States Regions East Coast, Northeastern US Gender Male
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Rick chairs the firm's Venture, Technology and Entrepreneurial Services practices and is a member of its Corporate, Finance and Capital Markets Department. He represents public and private companies and non-profit entities in all phases of organization, financing and operations. He handles mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and corporate
governance issues and negotiates complex commercial and licensing agreements for companies in the IT/software, Internet, pharmaceutical, medical device, health care, telecommunications, energy, real estate, manufacturing and a variety of other industries.
Rick is an experienced intellectual property attorney and has assisted clients in planning and implementing commercial development, licensing and deployment of new technologies. He has negotiated some of the largest dollar value strategic alliances in the biotechnology field, and has assisted in the development of a unique worldwide licensing scheme for a new computer technology used in television broadcasting.
As part of his practice, Rick manages multi-million dollar financial transactions, including private placements, public offerings, bond issues and bank financings. He represents both U.S. and foreign-based private equity and venture capital funds, banks and investment banks and angel investors in connection with investment related transactions. He is also recognized as a mentor and facilitator of entrepreneurship, whether for new companies or for new projects within larger organizations, and helps coordinate legal, business and financial services necessary for growth.
He is AV® Preeminent™ rated by LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell, which is the highest rating for legal ability and general ethics.
Rick is also a FINRA-licensed investment banker. He serves as a Senior Managing Director of the firm's affiliate, Griffin Financial Group, LLC, where he focuses on fundraising, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic advisory for companies in Life Sciences, Technology, Energy, Telecommunications and other industries.
Making use of resources from both the law firm and the investment bank, Rick also founded and manages Griffin Technology Partners, a virtual innovation fund focused on funding and developing new technologies.
