Laura C. Glynn

Laura Glynn has a unique ability to develop creative solutions to transaction logjams and to bring practical insight to complex transactions. Laura has been advising clients on business strategy and transactions for more than 25 years and she uses her “repeat player” experience to counsel clients on market norms and best transaction alternatives. Laura’s clients often engage her specifically to lead the negotiation of business contracts and transactions.
Formerly a Partner at Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP in Boston for more than 15 years, Laura advises clients at all points on the spectrum from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. Laura’s varied transactional practice has included mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances and joint ventures in the United States and abroad, and she has represented both private and public companies as well as institutional investors, commercial banks, non-bank lenders, private equity funds, underwriters, placement agents, and venture capital funds.
Laura has worked on countless equity financings for companies at every stage of development and in a variety of sectors, including technology, financial services, social media, energy, timber and other natural resources, specialty chemical, health care services, manufacturing, information systems, defense, steel, mining, and consumer-facing retail. Laura’s complex debt financing work has included a broad range of leverage transactions, including senior secured and unsecured bank and note financings, mezzanine subordinated debt financings with equity kickers, venture debt financings, and hybrid debt/equity investments.
Laura Glynn also serves as general outside counsel to private and public companies on day-to-day matters including corporate structure, licensing transactions, management and service agreements, distribution agreements, employment agreements and general business strategy.
Laura’s M&A experience includes both buy and sell side representation and she has been named one of the top Women Attorneys in Massachusetts, a New England SuperLawyer for mergers & acquisitions, securities and corporate finance and banking, and in The Legal 500 for mergers and acquisitions in the Northeast United States. She is an active member and former trustee of the American College of Investment Counsel as well as the Center for Women & Enterprise.
Laura earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School, cum laude, as well as a B.A. from Brown University, magna cum laude.