Life Sciences: Areas of Practice

Company Formation

  • Incorporation and organization
  • Employment, consulting, SAB arrangements, compensation and benefits
  • Facilities acquisition and leasing

Product Development and Commercialization

  • Patent prosecution, analysis and strategy
  • FDA regulatory strategy and compliance
  • Corporate partnering transactions, strategic alliances and joint ventures
  • Clinical trial agreements
  • Manufacture, supply and distribution agreements
  • Vendor and investigator contracting for product formulation, manufacture, study and commercialization
  • Government contracts, CRADAs, NIH Grants
  • Product trademarks, USAN applications

Financing

  • Angel investment and venture capital financing
  • Public and follow on offerings 
  • Private placements, PIPES, 144A transactions and highly structured convertible instruments, spin-outs and roll-ups
  • Tax and tax planning
  • Royalty monetization and buy-outs
  • Clinical trial project finance

Strategic Planning

  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Staged acquisitions
  • Intellectual property licensing, defense and enforcement
  • Securities and commercial litigation
  • Product liability
  • Antitrust and competition

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