Foley Hoag LLP Complete Services Listing

Industry focused expertise

Whether its healthcare, energy or high tech, our industry focus and expertise means we have the resources to provide specialized and focused legal services for important areas of your industry:

• Government Strategies - With offices in Boston and Washington, D.C., and with lawyers who have worked in government at both the federal and state level, we have an understanding of the legislative and regulatory processes you face. We also know the high-level decision makers. This allows us to help you navigate the processes to obtain the approvals and incentives that will help your business move ahead. Learn more about all of Foley Hoag’s Government Strategies practice.
• Food and Drug Administration and Reimbursement - Our lawyers know how to obtain appropriate coverage and payment for a wide range of health care products and services.  We regularly represent our clients before the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). We also advise companies regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Within the context of these efforts, we often work with senior agency managers, congressional staff and members of Congress. As a result, we play key roles in the enactment of laws and the implementation of regulations and policies affecting product development schedules, regulatory compliance, and timely product approvals. Learn more about all of Foley Hoag’s Medicare Coverage and Reimbursement practice.
• Environmental Permitting - We help our clients secure federal, state and local permits for various renewable energy projects, such as community wind, commercial wind, biomass power generation, combined heat and power and landfill gas generation. Learn more about all of Foley Hoag’s Environmental practice.
• Energy Regulatory and Market Advice - We are also experienced in qualifying facilities to generate Renewable Energy Credits (RECs), selling RECs and drafting power sales agreements. Additionally, we provide our clients with advice on interconnecting wind, photovoltaic and combined heat and power facilities, analyzing Production Tax Credit issues, and negotiating property tax agreements for renewable energy facilities sited on private and municipal land. Our lawyers have also negotiated special contracts for standby and supplemental service. Learn more about all of Foley Hoag’s Energy and Regulated Industries practice.
• Climate Change - Our lawyers are ready to assist those businesses confronting the challenges of the new greenhouse gas regimes as well as those capitalizing on the opportunities which these regulatory regimes and the voluntary markets can and will present. Our lawyers pull on the firm’s long-time strengths in the areas of energy, environmental compliance, corporate finance, tax structuring, government strategies and other specialties to provide clients with a comprehensive package of services and guidance in the complex and constantly-evolving world of carbon finance, development, trading and compliance.  Learn more about all of Foley Hoag’s Climate Change practice.
• Telecom Agreements, Regulation and Permitting – Our lawyers provide advice to clients at every level of the telecommunications business, from helping technology start-ups design business plans to assisting BOCs, CLECs and CAPs in a wide range of agreements and transactions. These arrangements include negotiating telecommunications equipment collocations, wireless cell-tower sites, and all aspects of fiber-cable network development and construction, including IRUs and right-of-way permitting with public and private parties. Learn more about all of Foley Hoag’s Telecommunications practice.

Other legal services

While the focus of the EEC is emerging companies, Foley Hoag has the depth of expertise to assist those companies as they grow and mature.  For example, an established company may be looking toward the global markets for new opportunities.  We at Foley Hoag know that businesses participating in the global marketplace are increasingly held to higher standards of social, environmental and ethical accountability and, through our Corporate Social Responsibility practice, our clients gain access to our strategic, cost-effective policies and programs, which we’ve designed to safeguard your reputation, limit your legal risk, and turn the challenges of globalization into a competitive advantage for your organization.  Or, if the company finds itself on one side of a dispute, Foley Hoag is an acknowledged regional, national and international dispute-resolution powerhouse, and the lawyers in our Litigation practice are equally adept at large-scale complex patent litigation; at defending individuals or entities charged with business crimes, securities violations, or professional liability claims; and at safeguarding the business viability of emerging companies in industries such as life sciences, high technology and energy.  Foley Hoag also understands that tax laws have grown in scope and complexity and now touch every corner of your business life. The lawyers in our Taxation practice understand this important, but highly complex, field and can provide a broad range of services to help you handle any potential tax issue, with an emphasis on practical, creative solutions aimed at responding to your business needs.

International Resources

We also have the capability to assist emerging enterprises that thrive by utilizing offshore or international resources for financing, labor, or customer markets. Our lawyers have helped enterprises to benefit from tax advantages or funding through offshore connections in the British Virgin Islands or the Cayman Islands. We have also worked on software and employment issues for financial institutions operating in India; we have represented investment funds and target companies in closing millions of dollars of investments related to emerging technologies in China; and we have managed transactions in Chile involving industries and institutional investors.

To offer our clients maximum international protection, we are also members of Lex Mundi, the largest international association of independent law firms around the world. That gives our clients immediate and reliable access to the experience of leading law firms in more than 160 countries.  Learn more about Foley Hoag’s involvement with Lex Mundi.