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Joseph M. Boyle

Mr. Boyle has a diverse background, holding both legal and business roles in the public and private sectors.  His legal practice focuses on representing entrepreneurs, start-ups, emerging growth and technology companies, and he has considerable experience with the encyclopedic issues facing those clients.  Mr. Boyle has also served as general counsel to a number of public and private technology companies, and in those roles, has handled diverse issues such as venture capital financings, negotiating strategic OEM distribution agreements with fortune 10 companies, developing open source strategies, managing intellectual property portfolios, navigating clients through the public offering process, corporate governance and compliance matters, and mergers and acquisitions, to name a few.  Mr. Boyle was the general counsel to Sourcefire, Inc., a Columbia, Maryland network software security company where he guided it through its acquisition by CheckPoint Technologies, a Series D round, and its IPO in March of 2007.  Prior to Sourcefire, Mr. Boyle was the general counsel to Riptech, Inc., an Alexandria, Virginia based managed security service provider where he was instrumental in negotiating its $145 million sale to Symantec Corp.  With Symantec, Mr. Boyle built and managed an operations team within its 24x7x365 security operations center.  Prior to Riptech, Mr. Boyle served as general counsel to Cysive, Inc., a Reston, Virginia based IT professional services firm where, among other things, he help guide the company through two public offerings.  Prior to Cysive, Mr. Boyle was in private practice focusing on private equity, mergers and acquisitions and corporate securities.  In additional to his private practice of law, Mr. Boyle has acted as the Chief of Staff to the Director of the National Cyber Security Division within the Department of Homeland Security’s Information Assurance and Infrastructure Protection Directorate. 

 

Mr. Boyle received his J.D. from the University of Michigan and holds a Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Detroit.  He is admitted to practice law in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the District of Columbia.

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