Practices

Life Sciences Corporate Partnering and Licensing

Why Cooley

  • 40+ professionals across the US, UK and Asia exclusively focused on corporate partnering, licensing, and other commercial transactions specific to life sciences companies

  • Counsel to 2,500+ active public and private life sciences companies worldwide

  • 50% of our life sciences partnering lawyers have a master’s degree or PhD with a life sciences focus

  • Decades of experience across a range of life sciences transaction structures, territories, product stages and technologies

  • Multidisciplinary team of industry-leading lawyers backed by a wealth of supporting experience gained thorough previous roles ranging from in-house counsel at biotech and major pharmaceutical firms to business consultants and biotech researchers at life sciences companies

  • Well-versed in the business, regulatory and commercial issues inherent in transactions, with the flexibility to call on a team of intellectual property, regulatory, reimbursement, tax, antitrust and other colleagues as needed

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Cooley is a true business partner with outstanding commercial awareness.

Client interview with Chambers

Recognition

  • Corporate Firm of the Year – LMG Life Sciences 2024
  • Licensing and Collaboration Firm of the Year – LMG Life Sciences EMEA 2025
  • Band 1: Life Sciences (CA, MA, Nationwide and UK) – Chambers 2025
  • Leading Practice: Life Sciences – Chambers Greater China 2025
  • Tier 1: Healthcare – Life Sciences – Legal 500 US
  • Practice Group of the Year – Life Sciences – Law360 2022 – 2025

Life Sciences & Healthcare Innovation Hub

A comprehensive resource for key stakeholders across the global life sciences and healthcare industry