Choate, Hall & Stewart

Dr. Brian Reese leverages his combination of technical, legal, and business expertise to provide unusually comprehensive and pragmatic counsel to clients in the life sciences industries. Brian helps clients navigate and position themselves within the marketplace, building exclusivity positions that embrace intellectual property rights, corporate agreements, and regulatory options. His creative and thoughtful approach explores sources of positioning that include supply chain management, product lifecycle, and competitive intelligence.

Advising clients on a unique mix of IP protection, transactions, and due diligence with particular focus on handling complex patent portfolios as well as managing IP programs, Brian helps clients create and monetize value for their most important assets, be it through direct product development or a licensing or other commercial transaction.

As a former stock analyst, Brian brings a unique perspective to his practice and understands many of the business realities that his clients face, as well as how intellectual property rights and corporate transactions can help them achieve their goals.

Albany Law School JD, 2009, magna cum laude

Pennsylvania State University PhD, 2005, Integrative Biosciences: Neuroscience MBA, 2003

State University of New York BS, 2000