Mintz Levin Represents Connected Corporation In Acquisition by Iron Mountain; Ranked One of the Top Ten Largest Venture Capital Exits of 2004.

BOSTON -- Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. represented Connected Corporation in its acquisition by Iron Mountain, one of the largest venture-backed exits in 2004. A Mintz Levin team of business and finance, intellectual property, employment, labor and benefits and tax attorneys assisted with the $117 million transaction.

"This transaction characterizes Mintz Levin's ability to bring together our deep expertise across several practice areas to best service our clients' needs," said Neil H. Aronson, Chair of Mintz Levin's Business and Finance Section. "We congratulate Connected on achieving a terrific result in this complex transaction."

Mintz Levin's attorneys represented Connected Corp., a Framingham-based developer of data-center management and storage technologies in its acquisition by Boston-based records manager, Iron Mountain (NYSE: IRM), in November 2004. The $117 million acquisition of Connected Corp., which had raised $66 million over six rounds of financings, ranked as the ninth largest deal nation-wide among venture-backed firms in 2004. Mintz Levin has counseled Connected Corporation since 2001.

Mintz Levin's team included corporate partner Neil Aronson and associates Scott Samuels, Chris Jones, Deepak Jayaraman, and Katya Daniel. Also assisting Connected Corporation were intellectual property partner Jason Mirabito and associate Eric Schulman, tax and benefit partners Michael Lieberman, Peter Marathas and Michael Solet, and antitrust associate Kate Walsh. In the November 2004 issue of Boston Magazine, Aronson and Solet were named as "Super Lawyers" in the mergers and acquisitions and taxation fields, respectively.

"Mintz Levin has unique skills and extraordinary depth in corporate, intellectual property, taxation, employment, immigration and licensing law, which allow us to comprehensively serve the unique needs of growing high technology companies and biotechnology," noted Aronson. Mintz Levin has regularly been ranked as one of the top corporate firms in Boston by Corporate Counsel Magazine.

Mintz Levin represents a wide range of technology companies involved in hardware, software, semiconductor, Internet, new media, communications, medical device and related fields. We represent technology companies in mergers and acquisitions both large and small and in all stages of growth, from start-up to later stage venture-backing, through the public offering process and beyond. Mintz Levin also represents a number of leading venture capital firms and other investors in the private equity marketplace.

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