Gunderson Dettmer LLP

Life Sciences Licensing and Strategic Partnering; Strategic Transactions and Licensing; Life Sciences

Brendan is a partner in the San Diego office and is chair of the firm’s Life Sciences Partnering practice.

Brendan specializes in structuring and negotiating strategic, complex “bet-the-company” collaborations, licenses, joint ventures and carve-out transactions on behalf of private and public companies in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical device, agritech, and genomics industries. His experience also includes counseling clients in connection with pre-clinical and clinical research agreements, supply agreements, manufacturing agreements, and distribution agreements. In addition to representing company clients in their partnering and licensing activities, Brendan also represents a number of prominent venture capital funds and institutional investors in their financing activities and in their incubation and formation of life science companies.