WilmerHale Ranks Among PLC’s “Global 50”

WilmerHale Ranks Among PLC’s “Global 50”

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WilmerHale lawyers have decades of experience advising public and private companies in all aspects of mergers and acquisitions.
Providing comprehensive solutions for the acquisition, enforcement and protection of IP.
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Clients trust us to protect their most important intellectual property matters.
Advising life sciences innovators, investors and industry leaders on complex transactions, legal issues and business challenges.
We leverage technical knowledge, business acumen and legal experience to structure, prepare and negotiate innovative and effective technology-related agreements.
For companies in the life sciences sphere, licensing intellectual property and establishing strategic alliances are critical. WilmerHale’s experienced licensing lawyers shepherd biotech, pharmaceutical, healthcare and medical device clients of all sizes through the complex transactions that make their businesses possible, including a broad range of licensing, collaboration, strategic alliance and joint venture agreements. Our attorneys also excel at brokering manufacturing and supply agreements, contract research and development agreements, distribution and commercialization services agreements, and material transfer and confidentiality agreements. They also frequently represent life sciences clients as they license patents—often the foundations of their companies—from, and sponsor research at, leading academic institutions across the United States and Europe. Backed not only by their own experience but also the deep well of knowledge possessed by the firm’s patent, tax, antitrust and EU competition lawyers, our transactional attorneys are ready to handle even the most multifaceted matters. Our team helps clients protect their innovations, forge strategic alliances, and successfully navigate a complex, dynamic industry.
Our clients in the ever-changing and fiercely competitive hardware, software, IT and services industries depend on us to strategize and negotiate transactions that take advantage of opportunities now while protecting their innovations and preserving flexibility for the future. We structure, negotiate and draft all types of licensing, distribution, product development, joint venture and strategic alliance agreements for these clients, often drawing on the deep experience of WilmerHale’s unique capabilities in regulatory, intellectual property, corporate and tax law. We represent both mature and emerging companies with business models centered around offering software and/or professional services relating to analyzing and extracting insights from large data sets. We frequently draft and negotiate data license agreements, software-as-a-service (SaaS) agreements, website terms and other services agreements in which data is the core subject of the license. We also advise technology clients on big data issues that arise in outsourcing, joint venture and other transactional matters. Our attorneys keep a close watch on internet-related legislative and regulatory developments in the United States, the European Union and elsewhere, and leverage our up-to-the-minute knowledge to advise clients in areas such as data privacy and security, copyright infringement, and export restrictions.

PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook 2006 ranked WilmerHale among the top 50 law firms in the world, with six WilmerHale lawyers ranked as “leading” lawyers in their respective practice areas. The firm was also recommended in 11 key practice areas in Europe and the US.

The PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook identifies the leading lawyers and law firms in the key international corporate and commercial practice areas in over 70 jurisdictions worldwide. These recommendations are based on research surveys given to in-house counsel from the 5,000 companies associated with PLC Law Department, and upon interviews with private practitioners. The guide recognizes those 50 law firms that received the greatest depth of recommendations across the research for 2006.

Based on PLC’s research, “The merger of the two US firms which formed this powerhouse in 2004 has proved to be a resounding success. WilmerHale continues to expand and has recently opened an office in Palo Alto in order to tap into the intellectual property market in the rejuvenated Silicon Valley region. The firm is now looking to expand its finance practices further in order to establish itself in the lucrative US corporate market. Its dynamic European practice twinned with its US presence give WilmerHale the ideal platform from which it can launch its bid to establish itself as a global giant.”

The following is a list of WilmerHale lawyers—along with their recommended region and practice area—who were found to possess the utmost talent and knowledge in their respective areas of law: Mark Borden (corporate/M&A and private equity/venture capital, US: Boston); Gary Born (dispute resolution, England & Wales); William Lee (dispute resolution and intellectual property, US: Boston and patent litigation, US: National); Alfred Server (life sciences: commercial and partnering, US: National); Steven Singer (life sciences: commercial and partnering, US: National); and Seth Waxman (dispute resolution, US: Washington, DC).

The firm has been recommended in the following practice areas: Competition/anti-trust; Corporate real estate; Corporate/M&A; Dispute resolution; Environment; Finance: banking and debt finance; Finance: equity capital markets; Intellectual property; IT and e-commerce; Labor and employee benefits; Life sciences; Private equity/venture capital; Restructuring and insolvency; Tax; and Telecommunications.

For the Yearbook's overview of WilmerHale, its core international strengths and recent strategic developments, click here.

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