Life Sciences Corporate Partnering and Licensing
Propelling innovative businesses forward for 40+ years as the go-to firm for life sciences licensing and collaboration matters.
Why Cooley
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40+ professionals across the US, UK and Asia exclusively focused on corporate partnering, licensing, and other commercial transactions specific to life sciences companies
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Counsel to 2,500+ active public and private life sciences companies worldwide
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50% of our life sciences partnering lawyers have a master’s degree or PhD with a life sciences focus
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Decades of experience across a range of life sciences transaction structures, territories, product stages and technologies
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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
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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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Client interview with Chambers
Recognition
- 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
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