Susan Murley is a co-managing partner of the firm, as well as a partner in the Corporate Practice Group. She is a member of the firm’s Management Committee. Ms. Murley previously served as chair of the Transactional Department, chair of the Corporate Practice Group and chair of the firm’s Hiring Committee. She is also a former member of the Executive Committee. Ms. Murley joined the firm in 1986.
Ms. Murley has more than 25 years of experience in representing private and public companies in the technology, life sciences and finance sectors, among others. She concentrates her practice primarily in the areas of corporate finance, mergers and acquisition, corporate governance and general corporate counseling.
Ms. Murley has represented companies and underwriters in more than 75 initial and follow-on public offerings, and has led a number of transactions in the mergers and acquisitions area, the private issuances of securities and license and distribution agreements.
Ms. Murley is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association and the Boston Bar Association.
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Experience
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Public Company Clients
Akamai Technologies
Aspect Medical Systems
BioSphere Medical
The First Marblehead Corporation
NxStage Medical
Idenix Pharmaceuticals
Sepracor Inc.
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Representative Transactions
Many life sciences and high technology industry public offerings for both issuers and underwriters
Venture capital financing for companies in the biotechnology, medical device and technology industries
A wide range of merger and acquisition transactions, including acquisitions and dispositions of numerous public and private companies
Strategic alliances in the life sciences industry
General corporate and securities law advice to companies and boards of directors
Recognition
- Named a Thomson Reuters Stand-out Lawyer – independently rated and selected by clients (2023).
- Selected by peers for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America for corporate governance law (2023–2024).
- Featured as a part of The Boston Globe’s and The Commonwealth Institute's annual Top Women-Led Businesses in Massachusetts from 2013–2020.
- Recognized by Corporate Counsel’s 2018 National Woman in Law Awards under the Law Firm Transformative Leadership category.
- Named to Boston Magazine’s inaugural Top Lawyers list in 2021 and 2022 in the area of corporate law.
- Named among the “Top Women Attorneys in Massachusetts in 2016,” and selected as a “Massachusetts Super Lawyer” for business law in the 2004–2006, 2012–2015 and 2018 issues of Boston Magazine.
- Named to The National Law Journal’s inaugural list of “Outstanding Women Lawyers” in 2015.
- Selected as a “Top Women of Law” by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly in September 2011.
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Credentials
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Education
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JD, University of Virginia School of Law, 1986
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BA, Tufts University, 1981
summa cum laude Phi Beta Kappa
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Admissions
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Massachusetts
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England and Wales, Registered Foreign Lawyer
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Credentials
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Education
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JD, University of Virginia School of Law, 1986
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BA, Tufts University, 1981
summa cum laude Phi Beta Kappa
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Admissions
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Massachusetts
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England and Wales, Registered Foreign Lawyer
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