Member Profiles

For 38 years Clifford B. Cohn has maintained a successful and varied practice handling complex civil and criminal cases and an impressive track record of victories and achieving large financial settlements from the successful prosecution of a variety of matters including estate litigation, will contests, personal injury matters for persons who have suffered serious and catastrophic injuries and wrongful death, commercial litigation and criminal cases. For the last 20 years Mr. Cohn has devoted a substantial amount of time to legal malpractice cases successfully representing clients against their former lawyers, lawyers being sued, and as an expert witness in legal malpractice cases.

As a partner at Haug Partners, Angus Chen draws on his legal and scientific background to strategically navigate the dynamic area at the intersection of law and science. Motivated by the desire to have a real life impact on people and their health, Dr. Chen’s practice also benefits from his prior experience as in-house Patent Counsel for a specialty pharmaceutical company, which has provided him with the ability to effectively integrate clients’ interests and a business perspective into his practice. Dr. Chen’s work at Haug Partners focuses on intellectual property litigation, counseling, opinion and agreement work. He specializes in the pharmaceutical patent and regulatory laws under the Hatch-Waxman Amendments to the Federal Food, Drug & Cosmetic Act. Dr. Chen has extensive experience with both brand and generic pharmaceuticals, including with respect to patent and regulatory strategies, lifecycle management, and settlement agreements.

Bruce H. Raymond has served as lead counsel in more than 1000 litigated cases in over 20 years of trial practice in state and federal courts in Connecticut and Massachusetts. Named as one of The Best and Brightest Business Attorneys (Hartford Magazine 2010) Attorney Raymond regularly represents companies in litigation. He earned his CIPP/US credential (Certified Information and Privacy Professional ) from the International Association of Privacy Professionals - IAPP. In addition to representing clients in data loss litigation, Bruce has been privileged to speak on the topic of data breach and privacy law on several state and national professional seminars including a recent panel with the Connecticut’s lead data breach enforcement officer. In 2013, Bruce appeared on the local NBC affiliate along with Attorney General George Jepsen in a feature story about how businesses should address customer privacy. His experience includes cyber liability, data breach, privacy law, professional liability, business litigation, products liability, toxic torts including asbestos, and intellectual property matters. He has litigated personal injury insurance defense cases including trucking, motor vehicle accidents, premises liability, liquor liability E&O, and D&O matters. Attorney Raymond represented Deere & Company in its successful appeal addressing the malfunction theory in products liability cases. Metropolitan Property & Casualty Ins. Co. v. Deere & Co., 302 Conn. 123, 125, 25 A.3d 571 (2011). 302 Conn. 123, 125, 25 A.3d 571 (2011).

John Upton advises both small and large businesses in all facets of their operations. He has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, petroleum distribution, bank financing, venture capital transactions, negotiation of contracts, and general business advice. Recent Representative Transactions: • Lead counsel to purchasers in an asset acquisition of a food processing division of a publicly traded seller. • Lead counsel to shareholders of a regional equipment distributor in the sale of its stock to a publicly traded international competitor. Advised client on assignment of distribution rights, noncompetition agreements, and employment issues. • Advised Maine-based medical device manufacturer in the sale of a minority stock interest to a Fortune 500 investor and in related long term supply and distribution arrangements. • Negotiated joint venture agreement between co-owners of a marine storage terminal. • Drafted multi-party shareholder agreements for owners of corporations in Maine and Virginia. • Drafted restricted stock plan for privately held manufacturing company. • Advised fast growing natural food producer on multiple stages of equity and debt financings. • Represented shareholders of a consulting corporation in a tax advantageous stock sale of the business to a national competitor, including advice on employment agreements, noncompetition covenants, and tax treatment of installment sale payments. • Negotiated asset acquisition of a marine terminal and petroleum pipeline. • Negotiated contracts for CNG and LNG supply by truck to commercial and industrial end-users. • Lead counsel to Canadian corporate purchaser of a forest products mill located in Northern Maine.