All BBF Officers & Trustees
Megan Gates

Megan Gates

President-Elect She/Her/Hers

Megan is a member at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., where she is Chair of the firm’s Corporate Section, Co-Chair of the firm’s Securities & Capital Markets Practice Group, and a former member of the firm’s Policy Committee. She advises life sciences companies with respect to public and private equity financings, merger and acquisition transactions, and compliance and disclosure obligations under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. She is BBF Treasurer and a member of the BBF Executive Committee, the Grants Committee, and the Joint Finance Committee. She has served as a member of the 2017 Strategic Planning Committee, the Annual Meeting Steering Committee, and the Law Day Steering Committee. Megan has also served as Co-Chair of the BBA’s Business Transactions Section, the Securities Law Committee, and the Adams Benefit Steering Committee, and co-chaired the Adams Benefit in both 2016 and 2021. Megan is a member of the BBF Society of Fellows. She is also a member of the Boards of Directors of the Pine Street Inn, Lawyers for Civil Rights, and the Japan Society of Boston. 

Megan is a graduate of Wellesley College and Boston College Law School.