Practice Focus

Mergers and Acquisitions, Real Estate, Succession Planning and Hospitality

Experience

Peter is a business lawyer. He assists clients with buying and selling businesses, general business and tax counseling and succession planning offering his business clients well planned solutions that create value and afford certainty.

Peter's experience includes:

• Lead counsel on the acquisition of a $95 million portfolio of hotels
• Lead counsel on the acquisition of a multi-state $15 million plumbing and heating supply business
• Lead counsel on sophisticated business succession plans for hotel and beer wholesale distributor owners among others
• General counsel to rapidly growing international confection and chocolate manufacturer
• Using his fluent German, Peter represents German, Swiss, and Austrian companies in various matters

Practice Areas

• Business
• Financial Services
• Intellectual Property and Technology
• Real Estate

Professional Activities

• Lectured on basic corporate law, choice of entity, limited liability companies, and family limited partnerships
• Lectured on international business transactions at Pierce Law Center

Honors and Distinctions

• Cited in The Best Lawyers in America 2008, and 2009 for corporate law and real estate
• Recognized as a New England Super Lawyer, Corporate Law
• Recognized in Chambers USA, America's Leading Business Lawyers since 2005 for corporate/mergers and acquisitions
• Member and State Chair of The American College of Mortgage Attorneys Small Business Association 2002 Special Advocate of the Year

Community Involvement

Board of Directors and Chair Elect (2008-2009), Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce

Board of Directors and President (2007-2008), Concord Boys & Girls Club

Bar Admissions

Peter is admitted to practice in the states of New Hampshire and Massachusetts.

Education

Clark University, B.A., Economics, with high honors, 1982; Washington College of Law, American University, J.D., cum laude, 1986, Topics Editor, American University Journal of International Law and Policy; Fulbright-Hayes Scholar at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) Business School, 1982-1983; Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for International and Comparative Patent, Copyright and Competition Law in Munich, West Germany, 1986-1987

Publications

"Export Administration Regulations," The CLA Advantage, June 1998.

"The Berne Convention: Its History and Key Role in the Future," 3 The Journal of Law & Technology 1 (Winter 1988).

"The New Photocopy Remuneration Provisions in the Federal Republic of Germany and Their Application to Foreign Authors under the International Copyright Law," 19 International Review of Industrial Property and Copyright Law 319 (March 1988).