Nutter, McClennen & Fish, LLP assists a diverse client base spanning emerging companies, publicly-traded companies, private equity firms and family-owned businesses with M&A work across sectors such as financial services, information technology and life sciences. The team, lauded for its 'innate dealmaking instincts', also wins plaudits for its ability to mitigate corporate risk in transactional work. Shannon Zollo co-chairs the firm’s Boston-based M&A and private equity practice group and is equipped to assist with work extending to succession planning and reorganizations, while co-head Matthew Doring is noted for his experience handling financing matters. Tom Rosedale and Michael Kushnir are praised for their ability to ‘cut through challenging legal and business issues to focus on what matters’.
Testimonials
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‘The attorneys we work with have always taken the time to understand our key objectives/concerns. They take a very pragmatic approach to handling our matters that we appreciate. The corporate partners work seamlessly with other disciplines (tax, employment, real estate) and this makes the process very efficient.’
‘We have worked with Shannon Zollo, Michael Kushnir and Tom Rosedale. All three partners have been incredibly responsive to our legal needs. We can reach them any time and get "hands-on" service from these partners. Their ability to cut through challenging legal and business issues to focus on what matters is particularly appreciated. ’
‘The overall Nutter team has above average technical skills that combined with their innate dealmaking instincts puts them significantly ahead of other firms I have worked with on transactions.’
‘Shannon Zollo distinguishes himself from other M&A lawyers by his superior ability to articulate legal concepts in the overall context of the M&A transaction. Clients who may have limited transactional experience benefit from Shannon’s above-average skill at efficiently framing legal and business issues.’
‘Strong M&A practice. Good knowledge of small market acquisition deal points and advice. ’
‘Worked closely with Michael Kushnir and Portia Keady. Both have established trusted relationships with exec management and board members and have developed good legacy knowledge which is useful as we've grown over the seven years of the relationship.’
‘Exceptionally talented team, with strong legal expertise and creativity.’
‘Highly responsive, expert, commercial, pragmatic, prudent, reliable, creative, and candid, with unique ability to explain very complex matters in simple terms to clients.’
Key clients
- Eastern Bankshares, Inc.
- Timberline Construction Corporation
- MRN Diagnostics
- Spinnaker Capital
- MIKEL
- Firehouse Capital
- CDF Corporation
- Findability Sciences
- Select Engineering, Inc.
- Asydan Capital Management
Work highlights
- Advised Eastern Bankshares, Inc., on its definitive agreements to merge with Cambridge Bancorp in a $528m transaction and to sell its insurance operations to Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. in a $510m transaction.
- Advised Cúram on its acquisition of PMC Medical Group.
- Advised Best Lawyers on its acquisition of Good2bSocial®.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Shannon Zollo, Matthew Doring