Lea B. Pendleton

Of Counsel

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Lea's corporate and securities law experience spans more than 35 years. His practice has focused on representing and advising entrepreneurial, technology-based companies — including startups and established businesses — and venture investors in the areas of business structuring, corporate finance, venture capital, project finance, mergers and acquisitions, and the protection, licensing and transfer of technology.

Lea has participated actively in the MIT Enterprise Forum, serving on numerous case presentation panels. He is a member of the Corporate Law Committee of the Boston Bar Association, and of corresponding committees of the Massachusetts and American Bar Associations, and serves as an overseer of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. Lea is a former member of the board of directors of the Association for Corporate Growth’s Boston Chapter (ACG Boston).

Lea is an approved neutral (arbitrator) for the American Arbitration Association.

Prior to joining the firm in 1994, he was a partner in the Boston office of Day, Berry & Howard, where he chaired that firm's technology and venture finance group. Prior to that, he was an associate and partner in the Boston law firm of Herrick and Smith, serving for several years as chairman of its corporate department.

Lea is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School. Prior to entering private practice, he served as law clerk to the Honorable Andrew A. Caffrey, U.S. District Judge, District of Massachusetts, and as a captain in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps.