Brian has significant experience as a corporate lawyer advising companies with respect to formation issues, debt and equity offerings, mergers and acquisitions, asset purchases, reorganizations, divestitures and supply and distribution arrangements.

Prior to FDR, Brian was Senior Manager for Strategy and Business Development at IDEXX Laboratories, Inc., where he was responsible for overseeing acquisitions and divestitures across various lines of business.  Brian previously held the position of Associate General Counsel at IDEXX and provided primary legal support to the company’s reference laboratory division.  During his time at IDEXX, Brian played a significant role in a number of strategic business development initiatives including the acquisition of a number of reference laboratories in the United States, Canada and Europe.

Prior to joining IDEXX, Brian was a member of the corporate departments at the law firms of Preti Flaherty in Portland, Maine and Foley, Hoag & Eliot, LLP (now Foley Hoag LLP) in Boston where he focused his practice on representing technology, life sciences, internet and software companies.  Before entering private practice, Brian served as Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs during its investigation into foreign influence in the 1996 federal elections and as Counsel to the Committee on Education and the Workforce in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Brian received a B.A. from Boston College and a J.D. from The George Washington University Law School.  After law school, Brian studied finance and business at the London School of Economics and clerked for the Honorable Clyde Hamilton of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.