Michael A. Bean is a partner in Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough's Boston office where he routinely represents both emerging growth and established businesses with all strategic phases of their corporate life cycles, including entity formation, corporate governance matters, debt and equity financings, mergers and acquisitions, state and federal tax guidance, antitrust and regulatory matters, executive compensation, and labor and employment matters.  

Mr. Bean also has extensive experience in drafting, negotiating, and implementing various forms of business contracts, including but not limited to service agreements, vendor agreements, consulting agreements, intellectual property license agreements, strategic alliance agreements, commercial real estate leases, distribution agreements, and software as a service agreements.

Prior to his legal career, Mr. Bean worked in the financial services industry, serving as a brokerage representative at Fidelity Investments and as a mutual fund accountant at State Street Bank and Trust.  

Mr. Bean is a member of both the American Bar Association and the Boston Bar Association. He is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. 

Mr. Bean is the author of "SOX Whistle-Blower Protection Could Extend to Private Companies" and "SJC Upholds Liquidated Damages Clause," both published on www.newenglandinhouse.com.

Mr. Bean's representations include the following:

• Represented a client that is a developer and manufacturer of debris detection safety technology for airport runways in the drafting, negotiation, and implementation of an agreement with a Fortune 500 scientific, engineering, and technology applications company regarding the distribution, product integration, and support of the client's technology within a worldwide territory.
• Represented Sabrina's Foundation, a nonprofit corporation organized to provide funding for medical research for vascular health issues affecting pregnant and postpartum women, with respect to its initial formation and application for federal tax exemption on an expedited basis.
• Represented a firm energy client with respect to an appeal before the Massachusetts Appellate Tax Board regarding the application of the corporate excise tax.
• Regularly represents a full-service hospitality company with respect to the drafting, negotiating and reviewing of concierge service and event agreements with its residential and commercial clients.
• Represented a communications firm with respect to its $20 million acquisition by a leading global network service provider.
• Represented a management consulting firm with respect to its $100 million stock acquisition by an international media company.
• Represented a client that is a worldwide leader in the design and manufacture of corrective lenses with respect to both its stock acquisition of a U.S. manufacturer of vision screening equipment and its asset acquisition of a U.S. lens processing equipment manufacturer.
• Represented a wholesale plumbing and heating supply company with respect to its asset acquisition of a plumbing supply company.
• Represented a developer of mainframe security management software with respect to the acquisition of its assets by a software manufacturer.
• Represented a designer of application specific integrated circuits with respect to a staged Series A preferred equity financing of up to $20 million by a leading venture capital firm.
• Represented a distributor of air compressor equipment with respect to the acquisition of all of its assets by a world leader in the manufacture of air compressors.
• Represented a medical device manufacturer with respect to a proposed sale of all of its assets for approximately $48 million.
• Represented a designer of innovative molecular imaging agents with respect to the staged equity investment in its business by a public company which develops and markets diagnostic products.
• Represented a manufacturer of ceramic products with respect to its stock acquisition by a developer and manufacturer of ceramics and associated materials.

 He earned his Juris Doctor, cum laude, in 2000 from Suffolk University Law School, where he received a Jurisprudence Award for academic achievement in the study of Sales and Leases under the Uniform Commercial Code. He earned a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, in 1994 from Providence College, where he received the Father Daniel F. Reilly Award for achievement in the study of History, and minored in Business Studies.