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Practice Areas
- Estate and Tax Planning
- Business Law
- Technology Transfer and Licensing
- Family Business and Succession Planning
- Trust, Estate, and Probate Administration
- Estate and Gift Tax Return Preparation
- Planning for Non-Traditional Families
- Trusts for the Beneficiary with Special Considerations
Professional Experience
Deborah Dong has twenty years
professional experience in business law and management. Deborah counsels
individuals and families on the preservation, protection, and transfer of their
financial, personal, and intellectual property assets. She also advises
businesses of all sizes and stages of development, including start-ups,
family-owned businesses, and multinational corporations, on matters including
entity formation, general corporate, business succession planning, technology
transfer and intellectual property licensing, and complex commercial contract
drafting and negotiation.
Prior to joining Bove & Langa,
Deborah was a partner with Tremont Law Group LLP, a Boston law firm that
focused on advising entrepreneurs and small businesses. She previously
practiced for nine years with Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, LLP, where she
focused on business, intellectual property, and technology law, and was a
founding member of the Technology Transfer and Licensing Group. Before
practicing law, Deborah worked in the financial services and information
technology fields, which included positions of Information Systems Manager and
Senior Telecommunications Analyst.
Sample Matters
For individuals and families:
- Develop estate plans involving tax planning, including use
of credit shelter, qualified terminable interest property,
generation-skipping transfer and irrevocable life insurance trusts
- Advise business executives on
employment-related matters such as noncompetition, nondisclosure,
ownership of inventions, and executive compensation arrangements
- Advise individuals such as scientists,
engineers, consultants, professors, and authors, on the preservation,
protection and transfer of rights in their inventions and other creative works
- Formulate sophisticated estate plans
involving gifting and contributions to charities, museums, and other
non-profit organizations
- Develop estate plans for
non-traditional families, including Massachusetts married same-gender couples
For businesses:
- Advise on legal issues of creating and running a business,
maintaining stability and control within a businesses, and transferring
interests in a business to future generations, such as through the
development of partnership and LLC agreements, buy/sell and shareholder
agreements, and business succession plans
- Negotiate and draft complex business and commercial
contracts, including agreements involving the protection and licensing of
sophisticated technology and intellectual property rights.
Articles and Presentations
Memberships
- Asian American Lawyers Association of Massachusetts
- Boston Bar Association: Trusts & Estates and
Intellectual Property Law sections
- Boston Estate
Planning Council
- Women Entrepreneurs in Science & Technology (WEST)
Community Involvement
- Boston Center for Community and Justice (formerly, the National Conference for Community and Justice, Greater
Boston Region): Fellow, LeadBoston Class of 2000.
- Chinese American Women Oral History Project, Radcliffe
Institute of Advanced Study, Schlesinger Library, Harvard University:
Advisory Committee Member
- Chinese Historical Society of New England, Inc.: Member
of the Board of Directors
Education
- Chinese Historical Society of New England, Inc.: Member
of the Board of Directors
- Boston University School of Law - LL.M. Candidate,
Graduate Tax Program, 2007
- University of Connecticut School of Law - J.D., with
honors, 1994; First Prize in the 1993 ASCAP Nathan Burkan Memorial
Competition in Copyright Law
- Boston University School of Management - B.S. in
Business Administration, magna cum laude, 1986; Boston Scholar
Admissions
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