Ms. Hawkes has served as general counsel to technology companies including providing advice on licensing, regulatory, securities compliance and strategic partnering issues. She also served as interim in-house general counsel for a biotech client with duties which included directing that client through SEC enforcement and compliance matters as well as dealing with technology transfer, foreign subsidiary, human resource, creditor rights and licensing issues. She has also represented clients before the SEC with respect to debt and equity issues, merger transactions and going private transactions.

She has served as an adjunct professor at Babson College in the MBA program, teaching a course in business and tax issues in mergers and acquisitions. She is very active in representing clients in the tax-exempt financing area and has served as bond counsel on hundreds of tax-exempt financing transactions benefiting private companies, as well as major public institutions and colleges. She also has counseled clients in large, complicated public/private development projects, including several low-income housing projects, as well as hotels and office buildings.

Ms. Hawkes served as managing partner of Bowditch & Dewey from 1997-2000.

• Corporator, Worcester Art Museum, Community Healthlink, Inc.,
• Family Services of Central Massachusetts and Bay State Savings Bank;
• former Chair, Worcester Business Development Corporation;
• former Director, Worcester Children's Friend Society;
• former Trustee, Boylston Public Library.