Peter Kelman

About

Peter Kelman is an attorney with more than 20 years experience advising companies and entrepreneurs in growing businesses. His primary focus has been advising clients in the high-technology sector. His counsel spans the life-cycle of a business from corporate formation to termination strategies. In particular, Mr. Kelman specializes in issues that concern the management of a company’s intellectual property, such as technology licensing and transfer, protection of intellectual property rights and the sale and acquisition of intellectual property. In addition, he advises companies on the day-to-day matters that all businesses face: matters of equity distribution, employment matters, debt and venture capital financings, non-disclosure agreements, and trademark prosecutions, to name a few. Mr. Kelman has written over a dozen articles about how law affects business and technology that have been published in the Boston Business Journal, Mass HighTech and the Boston Law Tribune.  Mr. Kelman is a director to many technology companies where he brings both legal and business experience to bear on important strategic decisions.  He is a part-time professor at Northeastern University where he teaches classes in business law and intellectual property. He holds a Bachelors of Arts degree in psychology from Yale University and Juris Doctor from Boston University. 

For more information about Mr. Kelman’s practice, visit www.kelmanlaw.com.