Taras M. Czebiniak advises health care clients on a wide variety of commercial, transactional and related regulatory matters with his primary focus on completing strategic and commercial technology transactions.  His experience in the health care technology area helps clients successfully navigate their health care technology transactions.  Since joining the firm, Taras’ practice has included a range of information technology transactions and service agreements for hospitals, nursing homes, and other health care clients. Taras holds the CIPP/US designation (Certified Information Privacy Professional/United States private-sector privacy).

In addition, Taras advises health care clients undergoing health system affiliations in connection with their Hart-Scott-Rodino premerger notification filings and antitrust bureau voluntary access requests.

Prior to joining the firm, Taras was an intellectual property transactions and corporate group associate in the Boston and New York offices of a large international law firm.  His advisory and licensing work spanned trademarks (including registration), copyrights, patents, trade secrets and other intangible proprietary regimes. He advised clients on a variety of intellectual property matters in connection with mergers and acquisitions, asset transactions, joint ventures, collaborations, licensing and other arrangements across many industries. Taras regularly worked with private equity investors, financial institutions, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, educational institutions and nonprofits.  He also advised clients such as fund sponsors, operating companies and institutional investors on the enforceability of electronic signatures in the context of federal and state laws and regulations.  In addition, Taras’ pro bono practice included nonprofit formation and advice and political asylum applications.

In law school, Taras served as Editor-in-Chief of the Berkeley Technology Law Journal and also worked in a supervised clinic representing applicants for political asylum.  In 2010, he worked as a summer law clerk at the Office of the General Counsel at the U.S. International Trade Commission, drafting Commission memoranda and opinions in antidumping and countervailing duty investigations.  Before law school, he was a legal assistant at a major New York law firm focusing on antitrust litigations and HSR filings.
 
Taras is a native Ukrainian speaker and is fluent in French.