Welcome to GTC Law Group
GTC was founded in 2002 on the belief that the traditional law firm model should be redefined in order to attract the most innovative legal minds and truly partner with clients. We created a distinctly different firm, organized to be as efficient and nimble as the growth enterprises we serve.
Our Passion & Your Success
Our results have been exceptional. We have helped early stage companies achieve significant exits and serve as M&A, IP strategy and IP transactions counsel to some of the world’s largest companies and investors.
Our Team Is Your Team
We are a tight-knit team of lawyers and technologists working seamlessly together from coast to coast. Our aim is, and always has been, to help our clients compete better and responsibly achieve extraordinary outcomes.
Brenda Campbell
Email: [email protected] Phone: 617.417.0700 Brenda Campbell is a senior paralegal with extensive experience in the trademark and domain-name areas. She is a key team member for various trademark engagements and assists GTC attorneys in the prosecution and management of various client portfolios. Prior to joining GTC, Brenda worked both in-house and in law firms, including in paralegal roles at Gillette and Biogen, where she coordinated global trademark portfolios.
Sean Belanga
Sean Belanga is a shareholder and co-founder of GTC and has over 20 years of experience in M&A and intellectual property transactions.
Lois Novotny
Lois Novotny’s practice focuses on general business and corporate law and intellectual property law. Her diverse in-house and major law firm experience includes 13 years as Vice President and Associate General Counsel to Houghton Mifflin Company, one of the nation’s major educational publishers.
Jennifer Heisler Lavalley
Jennifer Heisler Lavalley specializes in trademark law. Prior to joining GTC, she served as Senior Corporate Counsel to Polaroid Corporation.
Lisa Trainor
Lisa Trainor is a member of GTC’s M&A and business transactions groups and currently serves as the firm’s Managing Member.
Rick Schaul-Yoder
Rick is a US tax attorney and an internationally recognized expert in the tax-efficient structuring of domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, strategic investments and joint ventures, including the use of IP holding companies.
Steve Wills
Steve Wills focuses on patent prosecution and patent portfolio strategy. Steve has deep experience, both as an engineer and an attorney, in various technologies, including engine controls and diagnostics, control of manufactured component composition and microstructure, medical devices, after-treatment systems, oilfield technologies, applied electronics and software.
Brian Taillon
Senior Associate Email: [email protected] Phone: 561.676.2547 Brian Taillon specializes in trademark and copyright law, as well as intellectual property transactional matters. For nearly two decades he has supported clients’ acquisition, management and monetization of intellectual property rights. His experience includes the prosecution of hundreds of applications to register U.S. and foreign trademarks, complex licensing and the structuring, negotiation and execution of strategic intellectual property transactions. Brian conducts trademark opposition and cancellation proceedings, including successful Trial Briefing and Oral Argument, before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office’s Trademark Trial & Appeal Board (TTAB), as well as internet domain dispute proceedings before […]
Morten Boyd
Morten Boyd is a licensing and contracts specialist based in GTC’s Los Angeles affiliate office. He is a member of the firm’s M&A and licensing practices and oversees the firm’s transactional due diligence function.
Robert Nortrup
Robert Nortrup is a Registered Patent Agent and Technology Consultant and focuses on intellectual property strategy and related business concerns.
Kelly Smith
Kelly Smith is a senior patent paralegal with extensive experience in all phases of patent prosecution.
Ilan Jenkins
Counsel Email: [email protected] Phone: 720-432-8006 Ilan Jenkins, the founder of Full Stack Law, has extensive experience in the areas of data privacy, data security and technology law. Prior to founding Full Stack, Ilan served as Senior Corporate Counsel to a Fortune 100 software company for four years, where he handled a wide range of international privacy and security issues, including in the context of M&A transactions. In addition to his experience in the areas of privacy compliance and M&A support, Ilan has extensive experience successfully negotiating privacy and security-related agreements for software, cloud, marketing, ad tech, data and other technology […]
Thomas Hemnes
Thomas Hemnes is a prominent Boston intellectual property attorney and an internationally recognized expert on intellectual property law.
Junshi Lu
Associate Email: [email protected] Phone: 702.332.7651 Junshi Lu is a member of GTC’s M&A and Business and Technology Transactions groups. Junshi’s practice focuses on advising businesses with entity formation, venture capital financings and mergers and acquisitions. He also assists businesses with their day-to-day legal needs, including data protection and privacy compliance, employment counseling, equity compensation plans, technology licensing, corporate governance and various commercial transactions with vendors, service providers, distributors and customers. Junshi has worked with businesses in a wide range of industries, including software, energy, consumer goods, life sciences and technology. He enjoys learning about his clients’ businesses and helping them […]
Christina Moharram
Christina Moharram specializes in corporate and general business transactions across a range of industries, including energy, information technology, telecommunications, agribusiness, manufacturing, retail, biotechnology and financial services.
Adam Brooke
Associate Email: [email protected] Phone: 571-319-6425 Adam Brooke is a member of GTC’s patent and M&A groups. As a seasoned patent attorney with over a decade of experience, Adam assists clients in building quality patent portfolios attuned to their business goals. He has extensive experience in all aspects of portfolio management, from preparation and worldwide prosecution to post-grant proceedings such as inter partes reviews, reexaminations, and reissues. Adam regularly provides diligence reviews for business transactions, and opines on infringement, validity, and freedom-to-operate. Adam is deeply familiar with a multitude of technologies, both as an electrical engineer and as a patent attorney, […]
Sabrina Biton-Tinoco
Associate* Email: [email protected] Phone: 973.476.2695 Sabrina Biton-Tinoco is a member of GTC’s M&A and Business and Technology Transactions groups. Her experience includes complex commercial and intellectual property matters, with a particular focus on artificial intelligence and blockchain businesses. Prior to joining GTC, Sabrina interned in-house for different software companies where she provided support on issues pertaining to privacy and data security, strategic collaborations, and drafting complex enterprise agreements for technology (including SaaS). Sabrina holds a J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law and a B.A. in both English and Political Science from Drew University. Sabrina has conversational proficiency in Spanish. *Admission […]
James Schleicher
Principal Email: [email protected] Phone: 203-675-0276 James (Jim) Schleicher, Ph.D., is a Principal at GTC Law Group. Jim is an experienced patent attorney. In addition to preparing and prosecuting patent applications, Jim also advises on many other patent-related matters, including validity, infringement and freedom-to-operate analyses. He is fluent across a broad spectrum of technologies, including physics, chemistry and biotechnology. He has represented a wide variety of clients, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to individual inventors, with a particular focus on representing universities in protecting cutting-edge, foundational technologies. Other technology areas in which Jim has experience include spectroscopy, optical systems, semiconductors, nanotechnology, […]
Katie Coffman
Associate Email: [email protected] Phone: 443-821-2305 Katie Coffman is a member of GTC’s M&A Business and Technology Transactions groups. While in law school, Katie spent three semesters interning at the Penn State Law Entrepreneur Assistance Clinic, where she worked with startups and nonprofits engaged in a variety of different industries, assisting with entity formation and drafting transactional documents. Katie holds a B.A. from Monmouth University and a J.D. from Penn State Law.
Jason Lancaric
Jason Lancaric joined GTC in 2013 and provides support to the M&A, Tech Transactions & Licensing and IP Strategy & Prosecution practices with a focus on IP due diligence support.
Christine Schill
Email: [email protected] Phone: 636-248-5737
Grace Lee
Grace Lee focuses on M&A and general corporate matters. She holds a J.D. from Boston College Law School and a B.A. in both history and government from the University of Virginia and is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and New York.
Wael Nackasha
Associate Email: [email protected] Phone: 1-416-624-0877 Wael Louis Nackasha focuses on M&A due diligence and technology-related transactional matters. Wael specializes in open source and commercial software licensing, agreements for the sharing of strategic and commercially sensitive technology, and IP strategy advice, as well as artificial intelligence and generative artificial intelligence related matters, including risk management, policies, and assessment of training datasets. Wael drafts and prosecutes patent applications covering a wide range of technologies, including machine learning, blockchain, electrical, telecommunications, and computer-related technology. Before joining GTC, Wael was an Associate at Ridout and Maybee LLP where he practiced before both the USPTO […]
Jeffrey O’Neill
Jeffrey O’Neill Counsel Email: [email protected] Phone: 617-575-9584 Jeff specializes in preparation and prosecution of patent applications in the areas of machine learning, deep neural networks, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, speech recognition, and signal processing. Jeff has extensive industry experience, including the development of models for state-of-the-art speech recognition systems and training neural networks for text classification. Jeff is also the founder of two companies, Patent Bots and OpaVote. Patent Bots provides tools that help patent attorneys produce higher quality patents and work more efficiently. OpaVote helps organizations run elections online and specializes in ranked-choice voting for more representative outcomes. […]
Nadine Haddad
Nadine joined GTC in early 2022. As Controller, Nadine manages both the day-to-day and strategic financial affairs of the firm. Nadine provides executive level financial reporting to the firm’s leadership. She also manages the firm’s relationships with its tax and accounting advisors and other key vendors. Prior to joining GTC, Nadine was Senior Accountant at Goodwin Procter.
Anthony Decicco
Tony focuses on strategic development of patent portfolios, open source software compliance and due diligence, with a focus on mergers, acquisitions and technology-related transactions.
Imogen Bowden
Associate Email: [email protected] Phone: 239.227.6346 Imogen Bowden is a dynamic member of GTC’s Artificial Intelligence Group and brings critical cross-functional experience in mergers and acquisitions, business and technology transactions and privacy/data protection to the table to assist clients in navigating the complex artificial intelligence landscape. While in law school, Imogen successfully completed both an Artificial Intelligence & Law class as well as a Blockchain & Cryptocurrency class. Imogen’s AI-related research focus is on regulation of automated decision-making by platforms such as Google with regard to actual and potential medical diagnoses. Imogen also prepared a case study on Ethereum for “morphing”, […]
Veronica Louie
Veronica Louie focuses on M&A, intellectual property strategy, and general corporate matters.
Michael Webber
Michael Webber specializes in corporate transactions and the corporate representation of technology companies and investors, with a particular emphasis on venture capital financings.
Sayoko Blodgett-Ford
Sayoko’s practice focuses on intellectual property strategy and transactions and data privacy and security law. She has extensive expertise in due diligence in connection with technology M&A transactions.
Stacey Irizarry
Stacey Irizarry is a Technology Consultant and registered patent agent focusing on intellectual property strategy and related business concerns, including investor-side due diligence, M&A due diligence and patent evaluation.
Konrad Kulikowski
Konrad has unique, multifaceted experience in patent prosecution derived from several perspectives, including that of a USPTO patent examiner, start-up technology company with a platform technology, law firm patent agent navigating prior art and registration hurdles and academia evaluating patentability.
David Bender
David Bender has extensive litigation, counseling, and transactional experience in Privacy, Intellectual Property, and Information Technology. He co-founded the Privacy practice, and founded the IP practice, at White & Case, and headed that firm’s Privacy practice.
Leon Schwartz
Leon provides practical, real-word advice covering the in-licensing and making available of both open source and commercial software, represents buyers and sellers in various transactions, and advises clients on their privacy and trademark-related matters.
Brad Goldring
Brad Goldring focuses on M&A due diligence and technology-related transactional matters. Brad specializes in providing open source software-related advice, including risk identification and management strategies for businesses of all sizes.
Alison Kee
Patent Group Coordinator & Patent Paralegal Email: [email protected] Phone: 781.974.3202
John Monocello
John leads the strategy and prosecution efforts for companies in many different technology areas and has extensive corporate and private practice experience in the life sciences and medical technology domains, including deep experience in the digital health and wearable spaces.
Raymond Zenkert
Ray Zenkert has significant experience in drafting and prosecuting patent applications in a variety of technologies.