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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 NYSE

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), 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 Eric Schulman is an American astronomer and science humorist. Schulman received his bachelor's degree from UCLA and his PhD from the University of Michigan.[1] He is the author of A Briefer History of Time: From the Big Bang to the Big Mac , tax and benefit partners Michael Lieberman, Peter Marathas and Michael Solet, and antitrust associate Kate Walsh Kate Walsh may refer to:
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. In the November 2004 issue of Boston Magazine Boston (almost invariably called "Boston magazine" and often incorrectly written as "Boston Magazine") is a glossy monthly magazine concerning life in the Greater Boston area and has been in publication for more than 40 years. , 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 immigration, entrance of a person (an alien) into a new country for the purpose of establishing permanent residence. Motives for immigration, like those for migration generally, are often economic, although religious or political factors may be very important.  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 Name Location Founding date Managing Partners/Directors Specialty Capital managed
5AM Ventures Menlo Park, CA; Waltham, MA 2002 John Diekman, PhD (managing partner), Scott Rocklage, PhD (managing partner), Andrew Schwab (managing partner) life sciences $200M [1]
 and other investors in the private equity marketplace.

Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, PC is a multidisciplinary law firm with over 450 attorneys and senior professionals in Boston, Washington D.C., Reston, VA, New York New York, state, United States
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Mintz Levin is distinguished by its reputation for responsive client service and expertise in the areas of bankruptcy; business and finance; communications; employment; environmental; federal; health care; immigration; intellectual property; litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute.

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; public finance; real estate; tax; and trust and estates. Mintz Levin's international clientele range from privately held start-ups to Fortune 100 companies in a wide array of industries including biotechnology, venture capital, telecommunications, health care and high technology.

Mintz Levin was one of the first law firms to develop complementary consulting capabilities to provide complete solutions to clients' problems, including investment/wealth management, and government and public affairs.

More information is available at www.mintz.com.
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