HBC Avocats

Life Sciences Transactions

Katya Ascher advises her clients on the structuring and negotiation of strategic agreements, including collaboration, licensing, option, and technology acquisition deals, with a particular expertise in the life sciences sector. She assists companies in negotiating research and development agreements (including clinical development), manufacturing, service and supply, marketing, and distribution agreements.  Katya regularly draws on her technical training in biology to better understand the innovations driving the deals, enabling her to provide more informed and effective counsel to her clients.

Admitted to the New York and Paris Bars and as solicitor in England and Wales, Katya has practiced at leading law firms in the United States, the United Kingdom and France. Katya also gained valuable insight into the functioning and unique concerns of non-profit research institutions while heading the Intellectual Property division of the Legal Department of the Pasteur Institute. McDermott Will & Emery, Paris (2018–2025) Paris Bar (since 2018) Penningtons Manches LLP, London, Oxford (2016–2017) Solicitor in England and Wales since 2016 (non-practicing) Mishcon de Reya, London (2015–2016) Head of Intellectual Property Division of the Legal Department, Institut Pasteur (2012–2014) Member of the New York Bar (since 2007) Kenyon & Kenyon, New York (2005–2010)

English, French, Russian

Master’s Degree (Master 2), Industrial Property, University Paris-Panthéon-Assas (2012) Juris Doctor (Law), University of North Carolina, United States (2005) Bachelor of Arts in Biology, University of North Carolina, United States (2002)