Steve Cagnetta is a co-founder and Principal of Company Counsel. He has been advising entrepreneurs and emerging companies since 1995.  Steve greatly enjoys working with entrepreneurs to help resolve the many business/legal issues that arise in the dynamic life cycle of an emerging company.  Steve is a co-founder and Chief Counsel for Primacea, Inc., a company dedicated to representing the best interests of leading physicians in connection with their collaborations with industry. He is also a co-founder of Healthcare Insights Solutions, LLC, a consulting firm focused on helping companies optimize the development and commercialization of medical devices.

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Steve has been a guest lecturer at the ITEC Business Plan Boot Camp at BU School of Management.  He has been a panelist at events focusing on venture capital and start-up issues.

Steve serves as a member of the Board of Directors of several for-profit privately held companies.  He was past Chair of the Board of Trustees for the Christa McAuliffe Regional Charter Public School, a charter school that uses expeditionary learning principals to teach middle school students in the Boston’s metrowest region.

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Prior to founding Company Counsel, Steve practiced at Hutchins, Wheeler & Dittmar, in Boston and at O’Connor, Broude and Aronson in Waltham. Before entering private practice in 1995, Steve was a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps, where he served as a prosecutor and staff counsel to Commander, Submarine Group Two, in Groton, Connecticut.

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He received his Juris Doctor, from Boston University and his Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude from Muhlenberg College. Steve is admitted to the bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

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Steve may be reached at:

Phone: (781) 369-2900
Fax: (781) 240-1050
Email: steve@companycounsel.biz