Ben focuses his practice on complex commercial contract drafting and negotiation, corporate law, and intellectual property law. Ben has experience in entity formation, start-ups, small business laws and operations, buying and selling a business, starting or acquiring a medical or dental practice, negotiating manufacturing, supply, and distribution agreements, and dispute resolution.
As an entrepreneur himself, Ben is as happy to delve into your business plan and five-year pro formas, as he is in counseling your business on its corporate structure, intellectual property protection and barrier creation, and exit strategy.
Interests:
When he's not practicing law, Ben enjoys working with start-ups and emerging businesses.
AREAS OF PRACTICE
- Business and Corporate Law
- Complex Contract Drafting and Negotiation
- Oregon Small Business Laws
- Buying or Selling a Business
- Starting/Acquiring a Medical or Dental Practice
- Manufacturing Agreements and Supply Agreement
- Distributor Agreements and Sales Representative Agreements
- Emerging Business and Technology
- Starting a Business in Oregon
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Corporate Reorganizations
- Intellectual Property Law
- Contract Law
EDUCATION
- University of Oregon School of Law, Eugene, Oregon
- J.D.
- Honors: Outstanding Student in Law and Entrepreneurship
- Honors: Tom C. Foster Scholarship Award Winner
- Honors: Technology and Entrepreneurship Fellow
- University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
- B.A.
- Major: Biology, Chemistry, and Psychology