Published in The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, October 2004.
Editor: Ms. Reicin, would you tell us something about your professional experience?
Reicin: I have been practicing corporate and securities law for over 20 years. My practice has been a general corporate practice focused on securities, financing, mergers and acquisitions and general corporate advice. Fifteen years ago I started getting involved in health technology and other technology competencies, and this has been the core of my practice ever since.
Editor: You are the practice leader of Torys’ technology and life sciences groups. For starters, please tell us how you came to this area.
Reicin:
I wrote my economics thesis in 1980 on the emerging Israeli technology sector. This was very modest at the time, but since then Israel has emerged as one of the major technology centers in the world. I then spent a year working with the fledgling Israeli industry. That was a very good experience for me, and I developed a