Ward, Thomas S.

Thomas Ward is a partner in the Corporate Practice Group. His practice focuses on corporate and securities matters, with an emphasis on public and private offerings, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital work and international transactions.

Practice

Mr. Ward has extensive experience as both purchaser’s and seller’s counsel in mergers and acquisitions transactions. Recent mergers and acquisitions representations include:

• Alantos Pharmaceuticals Holding in its acquisition by Amgen
• Bacardi Limited in its equity investment in Leblon Holdings
• Danaher Corporation in its tender offer and acquisition of Trojan Technologies
• Manufacturers’ Services Limited in its acquisition by Celestica
• MicroStrategy Incorporated in the divestiture of its Alarm.com subsidiary 
• Neighborhood Diabetes, Inc. in its acquisition by Insulet Corporation
• Reflectent Software in its acquisition by Citrix Systems, Inc.
• Tatara Systems in its acquisition by Taqua

Mr. Ward has represented both issuers and underwriters in numerous public and private offerings, and has participated in offerings by both domestic and foreign issuers. Recent capital markets transactions have included:

• Representation of Akamai Technologies in issuances of an aggregate of $400 million of convertible senior notes and common stock
• Representation of Oclaro, Inc. (formerly Bookham, Inc.) in public and private offerings of more than $200 million of equity securities
• Representation of LIN TV Corp. in issuances of an aggregate of $690 million of high yield debt and convertible debentures
• Representation of VistaPrint in its $138 million initial public offering

Mr. Ward serves as outside counsel for a number of companies in the software, semiconductor and media sectors, including:

• BE Semiconductor Industries N.V.
• BinOptics Corporation 
• Boston Business Systems
• MicroStrategy Incorporated
• Panoratio Holdings, Inc.
• VistaPrint N.V.

Mr. Ward also represents the National Football League and the National Hockey League in a variety of matters, including the NFL Sunday Ticket and NHL Center Ice broadcasting packages.

Professional Activities

Mr. Ward serves as clerk (secretary) of City Year, Inc.