Life Sciences Corporate Partnering & Licensing Lawyers - Experience // Cooley // Global Law Firm

Why Cooley

Breakthroughs happen with Cooley. At Cooley, we don’t just advise – we accelerate your achievements. Our collaborative approach draws upon unparalleled experience and our extensive industry network to drive strategic solutions and resolve challenges. With Cooley as your catalyst, you’re not just part of the life sciences industry – you’re shaping it.

We have a dedicated team of 40+ corporate partnering and licensing lawyers, including senior team members who are internationally recognized as being the best in their field. Many of our lawyers are backed by a wealth of life sciences industry experience, having previously worked as pharmaceutical marketing specialists, business consultants, financial leaders, biotech researchers and in-house counsel at life sciences companies including Amgen, Bristol Myers Squibb, Exelixis, Jazz Pharmaceuticals, and Merck.

We bring to bear decades of experience across a diverse range of transaction structures, territories, product stages and technologies, including highly structured transactions with other drivers such as equity or research and development investment, option and stage-acquisition rights, complex financing, and tax structure and territory/field sharing.

Areas of practice

Complex early-stage R&D deals

Advising on target discovery collaborations
Drafting option-based structures
Negotiating preclinical program licensing

Clinical-stage asset deals

Assisting with co-development and/or profit-sharing or other complex financial arrangements
Advising on equity investments, credit facilities and other off-balance-sheet funding mechanisms
Counseling on cross-border and global transactions