Sophie Bellacosa is an associate at the firm and active as part of the business law and M&A teams. 

Sophie has played an instrumental role in several significant deals  including leading the due diligence for a multi-faceted transaction involving a major cannabis software company in the successful sale of substantially all of its assets to a subsidiary of a public corporation. Specifically, she led the Rhode Island seller-side due diligence for the multi-state merger of two of its cannabis dispensary subsidiaries as well as assisted with the antitrust filings for the premerger notification to the FTC and DOJ.

She also led the due diligence — which included review of government defense contracts and obtaining regulatory approvals — for a transaction where the firm successfully represented a private defense contractor in the acquisition of its business.

Active in the community, Sophie is a board member of the Community Boating Center, whose mission is to make sailing affordable and accessible in RI. She is former board member for the Young Professionals Committee of the Rhode Island Society of CPAs.

Prior to joining the firm, she clerked at Duffy & Sweeney, worked as a legal extern for the Executive Counsel in the Office of the Governor, completed two summer internships at local law firms, and achieved certification as a mediator.