Chris Terry is a business attorney and trusted legal advisor to clients ranging from startups, growth stage companies, and closely held family businesses, to venture and private equity funds, partnerships and entrepreneurs.
Chris has extensive experience representing clients on corporate structuring, equity and debt financings, acquisitions and strategic joint ventures, as well as commercial agreements, technology licensing, outsourcing, and other business matters. Chris also brings a wealth of experience advising his clients on transactions that involve complex global or cross-border components, including hundreds of investments and acquisitions in the US, Asia, Europe, South America and Africa.
Chris regularly advises his corporate clients on day-to-day corporate matters, including employee incentive programs, vendor contracts, employment agreements, corporate governance and securities law compliance. Chris’ industry specific experience includes, mobile Internet, SaaS, medical devices, digital advertising, fintech, social media, and clean tech, among others.
Chris also regularly advises distressed companies and their stakeholders on corporate restructurings, workouts, reorganizations, spin-offs, and similar transactions.
Before Bowditch
Prior to joining Bowditch, Chris was a partner in the Boston office of a global law firm. Chris also worked internationally for over a decade, co-launching a US firm’s first international office in China, and also serving as one of the founding partners of the China Venture Capital group of one of the world’s largest law firms.
Besides work
Chris grew up in the mountains of New Hampshire, where he developed a love for snow and ski racing, but also a desire to see the world – which eventually led him to Spain and then to China, where he lived and worked for over a decade. Chris now lives in Winchester with his lovely wife, two school age boys, a black lab, and a wizened street cat that followed him home all the way from Beijing.
Affiliations
- Boston Bar Association
Bar Admissions
- Massachusetts
- California
Education
- B.A., University of California at Berkeley
- J.D., Columbia University School of Law