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Alexander Varond
Position
Partner
Career
Alexander Varond is a partner in Goodwin’s Technology and Life Sciences groups and a co-chair of the firm’s FDA Litigation practice. Alexander advises drug, biotech, and device clients on a wide range of cutting-edge FDA regulatory matters. He has extensive experience in medical device and drug development, Hatch-Waxman patent and exclusivity issues, and regulatory strategy. Alexander also counsels on advertising and promotional issues, defends companies during civil and criminal investigations on a variety of issues, including off-label promotion and GMPs, and regularly advises on corporate transactions. He has received wide recognition, including being named a Top Healthcare Lawyer by the Daily Journal and honored as a Top 40 under 40 lawyer in both California and Washington, DC.
Prior to joining Goodwin in 2017, Alexander was a senior associate at Hyman, Phelps & McNamara, PC. His perspective is bolstered by having worked closely alongside numerous in-house regulatory and legal teams through various critical projects, including NDA and BLA preparation, formal dispute resolutions, FDA meetings, regulatory strategy advisory meetings, and product launches.
Education
JD, 2011, The George Washington University Law School / BS, Biomedical Engineering and Management Science, 2006, University of California, San Diego
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Healthcare > Life sciences
(Next Generation Partners)With a raft of lawyers ‘whose experience is deeply rooted in the space,’ Goodwin is able to assist life sciences sector clients across the spectrum of related issues, ranging from multi-billion dollar acquisitions, to securing FDA approval for groundbreaking drugs, and obtaining patent protection for their products. 2023 saw extensive hiring at the partner level, with the October 2023 arrivals of licensing specialist David Chen in Santa Monica from Ropes & Gray LLP and capital markets expert Adam Johnson from Latham & Watkins LLP in New York underscoring the arrival in Philadelphia of a 10-strong team from Troutman Pepper in February. Mitchell Bloom leads the team alongside Kingsley Taft, with both assisting clients in securing VC funding and with eventual IPOs, with the latter also handling licensing agreements and the structuring of joint ventures; both are based in Boston. Also in Boston, Marishka DeToy and Robert Puopolo‘s practices center on capital markets transactions in the sector. The firm’s FDA regulatory experts are Steven Tjoe and Alexander Varond, both based in Washington DC and advising on medical devices and drug development processes.
Lawyer Rankings
- Next Generation Partners United States > Healthcare > Life sciences
- Life sciences United States > Healthcare
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Industry focus > Cannabis
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Finance > Fintech
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- International trade > CFIUS
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- International trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism