Life Sciences
Legal and business advisors supporting the life cycle of life sciences companies across the globe through technology and product licensing, patent and trademark procurement and enforcement, strategic partnering and acquisitions, public and private financings, cross-border transactions, and export regulations.
Burns & Levinson represents life sciences companies and entrepreneurs locally and internationally in the following industries:
- biotechnology
- clinical diagnostics
- colleges and universities
- health care IT
- health care providers
- medical devices
- medical equipment providers
- pharmaceuticals
Our proactive, interdisciplinary approach maximizes value for our clients. We provide a broad range of customized services to support life sciences companies through all phases of the corporate life cycle, including:
- corporate transactions
- patent and trademark prosecution and litigation
- employment agreements, proprietary information and non-disclosure agreements, and employment policies
- IP freedom-to-operate opinions
- export regulations
- general corporate, tax and securities representation (including SEC reporting, public/private offerings, corporate governance and investor relations)
- government contracts
- HIPAA issues
- manufacturing and supply agreements
- public and private debt, equity, royalty and other financing transactions
- research agreements
- start-up and corporate organization
- strategic partnering (including joint venture and development agreements)
- technology and product licensing
- trademarks, copyright, trade secrets and counterfeiting complaints
Connected & Collaborative
We add value to client relationships through introductions to those in our broad network who can help identify licensing or collaboration partners, raise capital, provide research and development services, and design and perform clinical studies. With Burns & Levinson, your company will have access to our contacts and peers in your industry, including executives, consultants, venture capitalists, investment bankers, accountants and entrepreneurs who have built and run highly successful life science companies.
Members of the firm’s Life Sciences Group are fluent in Hebrew, Hindi, Spanish and Mandarin, and conversant in Japanese, so we can work with your global partners in their language.
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