Finance & Business Matters

Our life sciences clients have access to extensive resources to help with capital formation and development strategies, strategic alliances, joint ventures, business combinations and corporate governance.  We also routinely represent the full range of those who finance the life sciences industry – investment and commercial banks and private equity and venture capital firms.

Our lawyers recognize the unique risk tolerance and life cycle issues confronted by the life sciences industry and its investors.  We understand that capital providers seek certainty and clarity concerning IP ownership, which can mean tracing an ownership trail back to a university-based professor.  We deal with the possibility of IP infringement, which may mean bringing to bear our patent mapping and other infringement experience. We also recognize the importance of gauging prospects for strategic success, which requires understanding how to commercialize IP and plan for a desired exit strategy.  Our extensive science capability gives us extraordinary effectiveness in looking beyond ownership to the actual merits and other strategic issues presented by a product or business model.