Powering life sciences at every stage

Proskauer’s multidisciplinary Life Sciences Group combines deep industry knowledge with technical and regulatory expertise, transactional strength, and seasoned dispute resolution capabilities. We bring together decades of experience across a wide range of transaction structures, disputes, therapeutic areas and stages of the life sciences business and product life cycle – for product sponsors, investors, and collaboration partners. We counsel businesses on developing robust offensive and defensive patent portfolios, analyzing freedom-to-operate, structuring clinical trials, filling pipelines and spinning off technologies, executing a wide range of commercial, strategic and financing transactions, raising capital and navigating the health care and FDA regulatory landscape. We have a proven track record of success resolving bet-the-company antitrust, intellectual property and commercial disputes, and guiding clients through significant federal regulatory interactions. Our integrated approach allows us to provide comprehensive, seamless service to clients around the globe.

Our Life Sciences Group delivers advice that is both strategic and practical across disciplines, borders and stages of growth. We represent public and private pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical technology companies, as well as private equity sponsors, private credit lenders, private investment funds, asset managers and other investors, academic medical centers, research institutions, CROs, CDMOs/CMOs and other strategic partners that power the industry. Whether a client is forming a company, raising or deploying capital, designing IP strategy, structuring an acquisition, license or research collaboration, preparing for clinical trials or commercialization, scaling manufacturing or protecting a core asset in litigation, Proskauer provides industry-calibrated counsel aligned with business goals.

Areas of Focus

  • Antitrust
  • Capital markets
  • Clinical trial, CRO and site agreements
  • Collaborations, co-development and joint ventures
  • Commercial dispute resolution
  • Commercialization, marketing, promotion and distribution arrangements
  • Corporate governance and public company advice
  • Coverage and reimbursement counseling
  • Cross-border transactions and disputes
  • FDA regulatory, clinical research and strategic counseling
  • Fund formation and sponsor-side investment platform support
  • Hatch-Waxman, FDA regulatory disputes and related litigation
  • Health care regulatory compliance

 

  • Internal investigations and research misconduct oversight
  • Life sciences litigation
  • Patent diligence and freedom-to-operate analyses
  • Patent litigation, post-grant proceedings and dispute resolution
  • Patent prosecution, portfolio development and IP strategy
  • Private credit, royalty finance and other credit and hybrid capital investments
  • Private equity transactions, mergers & acquisitions, carve-outs and spin-outs
  • Restructurings, financings and capitalization
  • Royalty, milestone and contingent value arrangements
  • Sponsored research, investigator-initiated research and other academic partnerships
  • Supply, manufacturing and CMO/CDMO arrangements
  • Technology development agreements
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