Practice Group Leaders:

Fenwick & West's Life Sciences Industry Group consists of attorneys and scientists who have grown up with the life sciences sector. Although we are probably best-known for our deep and longstanding expertise in life sciences litigation, we provide a full range of legal services to our clients. We partner with them, often from formation, on a broad range of areas.

• Ranked by Mergerstat as one of the top 15 U.S. law firms for Life Sciences M&A, based on deal value of transactions handled in 2007
• Experienced counsel who engage in strategic analysis and provide comprehensive strategic business advice and services including licensing, commercial partnering, pharmaceutical distribution, due diligence and opinion work
• Attorneys, patent agents, and in-house scientific staff with Ph.D. and Masters degrees in a variety of life sciences disciplines, including direct experience with:
  • neuroscience
  • organic chemistry
  • potential drug target and method of treatment inventions
  • protein and nucleic acid-based inventions
  • small molecule chemistry and pharmaceuticals
  • medical devices
  • drug delivery systems
  • molecular biology assays, tools and techniques
  • analytical chemistry
• Corporate and public-company securities specialists with deep expertise in the particular disclosure issues regularly faced by pharmaceutical, diagnostic, and medical device companies
• Business-savvy management of patent drafting and prosecution resources so that applications are handled with an eye toward their strategic importance to the company's business
• Comprehensive intellectual property litigation services, with extensive experience in "bet the company" patent litigation