Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Paul Hughes is Chair of the firm's Business Practice Department and also practices in the Health Care Department. He is experienced with the representation and operation of both mature and emerging growth companies in a variety of industries including energy and utilities, information technology, clean technology, telecommunications, biotechnology, health care services, and outsourcing.

Paul regularly represents clients in the areas of debt and equity financings, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, strategic alliances, and corporate governance.

Paul has served as Vice President and General Counsel of a venture capital-backed pediatric health care services company, and its pediatric clinical trials network. He was active in all aspects of business development, corporate strategy and operations and was responsible for all of the companies' legal affairs, including equity and debt financing transactions, mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances, licensing, real estate leasing, and contract negotiations.

Paul presented "Negotiation of a Venture Capital Term Sheet" at CTech's Brown Bag Lunch Series on Tuesday, April 14, 2009. Click here to view the presentation.

Paul is admitted to practice in Connecticut. He earned his B.A. from the University of Connecticut (1989) and was awarded his J.D. with honors from the University of Connecticut School of Law (1993), where he served as an Articles Editor of the Connecticut Law Review. Following graduation, he held the position of law clerk to Justice Fleming L. Norcott, Jr. of the Connecticut Supreme Court.

Areas of Practice

• Business
• Emerging Companies and Private Equity
• Information Technology and Sourcing
• Securities and Venture Capital
• Health Care
• Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Group
• Finance
• Biotechnology & Life Sciences
• Climate Change and Sustainable Development
• Energy and Utilities

West Practice Categories

Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Banking & Finance Law, Venture Capital, Business & Commercial Law, Energy Law, Health & Health Care Law, Life & Health, Natural Resources Law, Science & Technology Law, Biotechnology, Securities Law, Private Placements

Bar Admissions

• Connecticut, 1993

Past Employment Positions

• Justice Fleming L. Norcott, Jr. of the Connecticut Supreme Court, Law Clerk

Education

• University of Connecticut School of Law, Hartford, Connecticut, 1993
  J.D.
  Honors: With Honors
  
  Law Review: Connecticut Law Review, Articles Editor
• University of Connecticut, 1989
  B.A.

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