Riley Lovendale is a counsel in Goodwin’s Strategic Technology Transactions and Licensing practice and a member of the firm’s Technology group. He represents companies in technology and intellectual property transactions in a wide array of industries, in particular the digital health industry. Riley regularly drafts and negotiates a variety of commercial agreements, including cloud computing (SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS), services, consulting, collaboration, strategic alliance, development, supply and distribution, asset transfer, referral, reseller, confidentiality, and technology and intellectual property license agreements. Riley represents companies in connection with due diligence and other intellectual property issues in mergers, acquisitions, and venture capital and private equity transactions. He also regularly counsels clients—especially entrepreneurs, startups, and emerging companies—with respect to commercial, intellectual property, and technology-related legal matters.
Riley maintains a robust pro bono practice. He assists local small businesses and entrepreneurs through Goodwin’s Neighborhood Business Initiative (NBI) and has participated in the Lawyers for Civil Rights’ annual BizGrow conference in Boston for many years, both as a presenter and via in-person workshops.
Riley’s experience from earlier in his career at Goodwin also encompasses public offerings, including those involving foreign issuers seeking to access US capital markets, and counseling both US and non-US companies with respect to SEC reporting and securities law compliance. He joined Goodwin in 2014.
Representative Matters
- Represented venture builder in drafting and negotiating with multinational pharmaceutical company key formation documents and strategic license on behalf of a software newco
- Represented electric vehicle charging IaaS company in various commercial matters, including customer agreements and value-added reseller and referral agreements
- Represented fintech company in licensing its financial wellness software platform to multiple multinational investment banks, financial services companies, and insurance companies
- Represented moving and storage software company in licensing its technology to a government contractor in connection with a multi-billion dollar government contract related to personnel moving logistics
- Represented Project Beacon COVID-19 LLC, a Boston-based social benefit organization focused on helping to increase availability and affordability of COVID-19 testing, in connection with numerous commercial matters—including negotiation of strategic licenses, customer agreements, government contracts, and contractor agreements—and the company’s eventual sale to Ginkgo Bioworks
- Represented Healthcare Outcomes Performance Company (HOPCo), regarding intellectual property matters, in its partnership with OrthoConnecticut
- Represented Code42 Software, regarding intellectual property matters, in its carveout of the CrashPlan Group
- Represented Ven Capital Partners, regarding intellectual property matters, in its acquisition of Eleven Software
- Represented Nonantum Capital Partners, regarding intellectual property matters, in its acquisition of Lifted Trucks
- Represented Welly Health PBC, regarding intellectual property matters, in its sale to Unilever
- Represented 6 River Systems, regarding intellectual property matters, in its sale to Shopify
- Represented a private company in its acquisition from THQ and subsequent sale to Tencent of the Delta Force first-person shooter video game franchise
- Represented Mavrck, regarding intellectual property matters, in its acquisitions of GroupHigh and Victory Square Media (d/b/a Later)
- Represented SimpliSafe, regarding intellectual property matters, in its sale to Hellman & Friedman
- Represented EPR Properties, regarding intellectual property matters, in its acquisition of CNL Lifestyle Properties together with a co-buyer, Och-Ziff Real Estate
- Represented Charlesbank Capital Partners, regarding intellectual property matters, in its respective investments in or acquisitions of a variety of technology and other companies
- Represented Semma Therapeutics in its acquisition of CytoSolv, Inc., a developer of encapsulating cell technology
- Represented AaDya Security, regarding intellectual property matters, in its $5 million Series A financing
- Represented Labviva, regarding intellectual property matters, in its $20 million Series A financing
- Represented Bregal Sagemount, regarding intellectual property matters, in its $150 million investment in Conductor
- Represented Mavrck, regarding intellectual property matters, in its $120 million investment from a global growth equity firm
- Represented JMI Equity, regarding intellectual property matters, in its $34 million Series A investment in Cosential
- Represented Crop Enhancement, regarding intellectual property matters, in its $8.5 million Series B financing
- Represented Semma Therapeutics in its $44 million Series A financing and $114 million Series B financing
- Represented Celyad Oncology SA (f/k/a Celyad SA) in its $54 million follow-on offering
- Represented ConforMIS in its $23 million follow-on offering
- Represented Intellia Therapeutics in its $150 million follow-on offering
- Represented argenx SE in its $115 million initial US public offering and $266 million and $301 million follow-on offerings
- Represented BeiGene in its $182 million initial US public offering and $200 million, $201 million, and $800 million follow-on offerings
- Represented Galapagos NV in its $275 million initial US public offering and $371 million follow-on offering
Professional Experience
Prior to joining Goodwin, Riley served as a legal intern at The Law Office of Zick Rubin (later Rubin & Ulrich LLC)—a firm specializing in publishing law, copyright, trademark and intellectual property issues in higher education—and Community Action Program Legal Services, Inc. (CAPLAW).
Credentials
Education
JD2014
Boston College Law School
BS2011
Utah State University
Admissions
Bars
- Massachusetts
Recognition & Awards
Riley was identified as “One to Watch” for Technology Law in the 2024 edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America.
Publications
Riley’s speaking engagements include:
- “Doing Business Online,” BizGrow (2017) and Neighborhood Business Initiative workshops (2017, 2019)
While in law school, Riley was a senior editor for the Boston College Law Review. His article, “Tax vs. Penalty, Round Two: Interpreting the ACA’s Assessable Payment as a Tax for Federal Award Cost Allowances,” 55 B.C.L. Rev. 947 (2014), was informed by his experience at CAPLAW working with nonprofits receiving federal grants when the US Supreme Court issued its 2012 opinion on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius.