Sarah Curtis Richmond is a partner who specializes in providing general corporate and intellectual property legal services for high-technology companies. Her transactional practice includes the representation of purchasers and sellers in mergers and acquisitions, as well as start-up companies in venture capital and "angel" financings. She provides advice on day-to-day corporate matters, including business organization, employment matters, structuring shareholder and financing arrangements, corporate governance and equity compensation arrangements. Ms. Richmond's intellectual property practice includes negotiating software licensing and development arrangements and web-based agreements.
Before joining the firm, Ms. Richmond was associated with Hale and Dorr (now WilmerHale) in Boston, where she represented companies in connection with corporate transactions and performed ongoing securities and other corporate work for both public and private companies. Prior to Hale and Dorr, Ms. Richmond practiced law with Tomotsune, Kimura & Mitomi, a Japanese international finance law firm in Tokyo, where she represented clients engaging in international joint ventures and provided advice to Japanese companies on United States corporate law.
Ms. Richmond is the Co-Chair of the Corporate Law Committee of the Boston Bar Association. Ms. Richmond is also a member of the Boston Club, and chairs its attorney group. Ms. Richmond was selected as a "Massachusetts Super Lawyer" in 2007 and 2006 and a "Massachusetts Super Lawyer Rising Star" in 2005 and 2004 by Law & Politics Magazine.
Ms. Richmond received her undergraduate degree in mathematics from Columbia University, where she graduated magna cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She received her law degree from Harvard Law School where she graduated cum laude.
SELECTED SPEECHES AND SEMINARS
April 24, 2008: Program Co-Chair, "VC Financing of Technology Companies: A Look Under the Hood," a Continuing Legal Education (CLE) program of the Boston Bar Association
April 24, 2007: Program Co-Chair, "Financing Technology Enterprises," a Continuing Legal Education (CLE) program of the Boston Bar Association
May 6, 2004: Featured speaker, "Angel Funding: the Do's and Don'ts", a panel discussion and breakfast. This was the second program of the TechSpace Legal Issues Series.
March 18, 2004: Featured speaker, "What is Market?", a panel discussion on trends in venture capital deal terms sponsored by The Women's Venture Capital Network of Boston
February 27, 2004: Featured speaker, "Growing Your Company Through Both Good and Bad Times," the first program of a Legal Issues Series sponsored by TechSpace of Boston
May 12, 2003: Panelist for networking seminar "Positioning Your Business For The Upturn: Will You Be Ready?" co-sponsored by the firm and Brown & Brown and organized by GroupsAndMeetings and The Resource Collaborative
January 7, 2003: Panelist for the E-Net Boston Entrepreneurs' Network: "Surviving Overlooked Legal Issues: Lessons from the Trenches"
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
December 7, 2007: Mass High Tech, "M&A Casualties can be Avoided with Proper Planning"
May 30, 2005: Mass High Tech, "Green Companies Can Cut Through Red Tape"
April 15, 2005: Boston Business Journal, "Approach and Negotiation are Key to Raising Capital"
May 15, 2004: Indus Business Journal, Vol. 4, No. 10, M&A, IPO Markets Increase Optimism, But to What Avail?
May 1, 2003: RCW Mirus, Inc. Newsletter, Volume 1, Issue 18, " Earn-Outs: A Worthwhile Tool for Dealmakers?" Co-author with Christopher Dahl
June 2002: Women's Business Journal, Vol. 4, Issue 9,
"Use Your Business Lawyer Wisely." (Reprinted in Capital Venue Newsletter, Vol. 4, Ed. 3, July 2002)
September 2001: Women's Business Journal, "Protect Key Technology From the Start" (Reprinted in WPI Venture Forum News, December 2001 and Capital Venue Newsletter, Vol. 2, Ed. 1, February 2002)
June 4, 2001: Mass High Tech, "Founders: Get the Most from Sale of Your Company"
March 26, 2001: Mass High Tech, "VC Funding in Bad Times: Five Steps to Better Odds" (Reprinted in Capital Venue Newsletter, Vol. 1, Ed. 1, December 2001)
March 30, 1998: Mass High Tech, "Web Advertising Hazards".
INTERVIEWS
April 20, 2007: Mass High Tech, "How to Choose a Corporate Attorney" (Interview)
February 6, 2006: Money Management Executive, "M&A Earn-Outs Under the Microscope" (Interview)
October 2, 2001: c/net.com Tech News: " Start-up Employees: Read the Fine Print " (Interview)
