Biotechnology

Knowledge driven, 360° strategic counsel to make the most of your science and technology.

Cohen & Grigsby has decades of experience serving biotechnology, life sciences and medical device companies in all stages of development -- from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. Our understanding of the science and technology at the heart of your business is the foundation for how we help you convert ideas into opportunities that optimize your potential.

Our lawyers provide strategic, knowledge-driven counsel aligned with clients’ objectives. We not only serve as trusted legal advisors but also as trusted business counselors dedicated to delivering results and providing responsive and attentive service geared toward making the most of your opportunities and mitigating your liabilities.

From entity formation to corporate governance, business transactions, licensing matters, protection and commercialization of your intellectual property, and import/export, tax, product-liability and litigation matters, we bring the strength of our multi-disciplinary, strategic legal and business approach to fulfilling your company's business objectives.

Legal & Technical Expertise to Deliver Results

Combining our legal knowledge with our technical expertise enables us to understand and respond to the unique legal problems and business cycles biotechnology, life sciences and medical device companies face. Our lawyers come from a variety of legal backgrounds – intellectual property, corporate, litigation, and labor and employment. Our science backgrounds include biology, chemistry, and at the doctorate level, cancer biology and neurobiology with a subspecialty in cardiovascular physiology. We also have academic research experience in the fields of molecular, tumor, and cellular biology, biochemistry genetics, neurobiology, and physiology.

How Can We Help You?

Company Formation & Capitalization
University Technology Transfer
Public and Private Equity and Debt Financings
Research and Development Financings
U.S. and Foreign Intellectual
Property Protection – patents, copyrights, trade marks and trade secrets
Enforcing Intellectual Property Rights
Freedom to Operate
Licensing
Securities
Corporate Governance
Mergers and Acquisitions
Development of Strategic Alliances

Several examples illustrate how we have provided legal counsel to help clients in the life sciences arena make the most of their business opportunities:

Obtained patent protection and developed patent strategy for cancer therapy company that utilizes natural killer cells to treat cancer, and drafted and negotiated licenses for out-licensing the technology and a collaboration agreement for further development of the technology.
Assisted international research and development client in the licensing and commercialization of antibody-drug conjugate technology designed to link cell-killing drugs to antibodies against tumor targets.
Developed patent strategy for cancer diagnostic company including securing of patents in cancer diagnostics.
Developed exclusive, worldwide, in-license of university owned genetically modified swine IP in the xenotransplantation field for transgenic technology company.
Drafted and negotiated licenses for antibody technology used in conjunction with development, commercialization, manufacture, marketing and sale for one of the world's leading innovative companies providing healthcare and medical products to people and animals.
Assisted a leading innovative healthcare company negotiate an agreement with a leading pharmaceutical company to provide for the parties' conversion of a prescription drug formulation into an over-the-counter drug formulation in the U.S.
Obtained patent protection and licensing rights for various medical device companies in the development of devices such as catheters, stents, orthopedic devices, and implantable pumps for drug delivery, including sensors that trigger the pump.
Assisted international research and development client in the acquisition of prescription acne product lines (in various formulations) by negotiating the purchase agreement and counseling the client in all aspects of the transaction.
Obtained patent protection and developed patent strategy for medical device company having technology that provides non-invasive measurements of cardiovascular health.
Developed and managed IP portfolio for healthcare software company, including securing patent, trademark, and copyright protection, licensing the IP, and advising on related business matters.
Secured patent protection throughout the world for industrial microbiology company whose technology utilizes nanotechnology, and drafted and negotiated licenses for out-licensing the technology, and enforced IP rights related to the technology.
Assisted a large self-test diagnostic business acquire, through merger, a privately held manufacturer and marketer of a meter-based diabetes monitoring system and counseled in the related buyout of the target company's various classes of shareholders.
Assisted international research and development client in the development and commercialization of a pharmaceutical compound to target both tumor cells and the vascular supply to the tumor through the negotiation of a Collaboration Agreement and Co-Promotion Agreement with a U.S. pharmaceutical company.
Assisted biopharmaceutical company with various intellectual property