Contact:
Stephen B. Thau or
Julian Paul Thurston
Morrison & Foerster provides a full range of services to clients in the biotechnology, medical device and pharmaceutical industries. The firm’s life sciences practice includes more than
180 lawyers in offices around the world, serving clients in areas such as licensing and strategic collaborations, corporate
formation, debt and equity finance, mergers and acquisitions, patent prosecution and litigation.
Since 2000, Morrison & Foerster has represented life sciences clients in more than 100 venture capital financings , worked with more than 500 life sciences clients in intellectual property protection and litigation and completed more than 100 public finance and M&A transactions in the life sciences sector.
Morrison & Foerster has one of the nation’s premier biotechnology and life sciences patent practices, with the largest intellectual
property practice devoted to the life sciences of any full service law firm. The firm is ranked by PLC as among the Top 10
Global Life Sciences Law Firms with 11 of our attorneys on three continents receiving individual recommendations. The firm
has been involved in the development of the life sciences industry for decades, and many of the cornerstone patents of the
biotechnology industry (such as Cetus/Chiron’s patent for the Hepatitis C vaccine) were written by Morrison & Foerster attorneys.
The firm’s patent attorneys bring a deep scientific expertise that benefits both intellectual property clients as well as
clients being represented by the firm on other matters, such as licensing and corporate finance.
Morrison & Foerster represents a wide array of life sciences clients in such areas as combinatorial chemistry, protein chemistry,
drug design, genomics, developmental biology, plant physiology and agronomy, drug delivery and as well as mechanical and biomedical
engineering.
The firm works with life sciences companies at every phase of their growth cycle, including formation and financing of early-stage
ventures; start-up technology transfer; structuring and negotiating licenses, research and development collaborations, and
other technology transactions; corporate partnerships and collaboration; planning and developing intellectual property portfolios;
structuring initial public offerings and follow-on securities offerings; protecting and defending intellectual property rights;
and siting, permitting, developing and financing new research and manufacturing facilities.
Morrison & Foerster has full-service offices serving the life sciences sector in San Francisco, Palo Alto, New York, San Diego,
Denver, Northern Virginia, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and Sacramento. Furthermore, as a global law firm with offices in
several major international commercial centers, the firm is uniquely positioned to serve the global life sciences industry,
with offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo, Beijing, London and Brussels. Morrison & Foerster’s teamwork approach
means that life sciences clients in need of representation or counsel across practice areas or geographic boundaries can rely
on receiving a consistent level of service and the full benefit of the firm’s life sciences industry experience.
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