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Edwin Martin
Senior Advisor & SBIC Corporate Secretary
Ned has over 35 years of experience in the area of domestic and international legal and business transactions, particularly with technology and emerging growth companies and their investors. He is currently a Partner at the law firm of DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary LLP. Ned has been involved in the structure and negotiations of joint ventures and other corporate partnering transactions in biotechnology, software, electronics and telecommunications. He has worked on a number of transnational acquisitions and corporate partnering arrangements. Ned is a Senior Advisor to TeleSoft and is Corporate Secretary of the General Partner of the SBIC funds.
Ned has served as counsel to a wide range of companies, from New York Stock Exchange-listed companies to start-ups. Over the years, he has represented such technology companies as EG&G, Inc., Gen Rad, Inc., Storage Technology Corporation, Omnipoint Corporation, AXENT Technologies, Inc., Visual Networks, Inc. and Verisign, Inc. Ned is a member of the Piper Rudnick’s executive committee. He serves as the general counsel and is a director of the Mid-Atlantic Venture Association.
For a number of years, Ned served as co-chair for the annual Practicing Law Institute (PLI) seminar on private placements of securities, and in 1987 he co-authored Financing, Research and Development, a part of the CCH tax transactions library. He has lectured on several occasions on aspects of corporate partnering and the exploitation of intellectual property in the biotech, electronics and telecommunications industries. He has also lectured extensively on mergers, acquisitions and the negotiation of venture capital transactions.
Ned received a J.D. from Harvard Law School, Magna Cum Laude, and an A.B. from Harvard University.
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