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Ken Itrato

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Overview

Ken Itrato is a valued and experienced advisor to his clients in addressing a wide range of transactional, financing, and strategic business issues.

He handles a wide range of strategic and funding transactions, including venture capital, private equity, angel financing, and debt and also has a strong mergers and acquisitions practice. As a trusted team member, Ken advises clients with respect to the legal implications of their day-to-day operations, from complex customer and supplier relationships to employment and equity compensation. He effectively counsels on mission-critical licensing and partnering transactions involving core assets, technologies and/or products.

Ken’s clients include entrepreneurs, venture-backed companies’ investors, and both closely held and publicly traded companies across various technology-based industries, including life sciences, software, SAAS, internet, and engineering technologies. His counsel has included transactions involving hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital and private equity transactions. He has also assisted clients with mergers and acquisitions valued in the billions, and mission-critical licensing and partnering transactions.

Ken’s vast experience includes hundreds of agreements relating to the day-to-day operations of clients, including agreements relating to sales of goods and services, joint ventures, business development, manufacturing, supply, licensing, employment and equity compensation, leases, borrowing and lending, confidentiality, and numerous other matters. Ken has been a member of the National Venture Capital Association model legal documents drafting committee.

Ken has been active in various professional and community activities. He served as a mentor for the MIT $100K and ICE business plan competitions and as an advisor to CCTEC, the technology licensing office of Cornell University. Ken has also served on the Cornell University Life Sciences Board and worked with the university’s Entrepreneurial Network, as well as the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network. He is a member of the Cambridge Boat Club and Lowell’s Boat Shop.

Career & Education

    • General corporate and transactional law, AmLaw 50 firmGeneral corporate and transactional law, AmLaw 200 firm
    • General corporate and transactional law, AmLaw 50 firmGeneral corporate and transactional law, AmLaw 200 firm

    • Cornell University, B.A.
    • Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., Order of the Coif
    • Cornell University, B.A.
    • Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., Order of the Coif

    • Massachusetts
    • Massachusetts

Representative Matters

Ken's professional experience encompasses a range of representative matters during his tenure at Faber Daeufer & Itrato PC, prior to his transition to Crowell Life Sciences in 2025. Representative matters include:

  • A 25+ year history of equity financings of life sciences organizations including therapeutics companies, biopharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, technology companies, and energy companies.
  • A 25+ year history of investor-side equity financings on behalf of therapeutics companies, biopharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, and technology companies.
  • Numerous investments from various venture capital firms and family offices into undisclosed portfolio companies.
  • Numerous project financings by private investors on behalf of various companies, and clients by Silicon Valley Bank.
  • Numerous strategic transactions, including advising biopharmaceutical, biotechnology, and technology clients across private and public acquisitions, sales or options.