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Frederick Ball, a team lead for Duane Morris LLP ‘s life sciences and medical technologies group, has experience advising clients in the life sciences industry with complex legal matters related to regulatory compliance, deal diligence, and litigation. Ball notably represented a leading orthopedic robotics company in its acquisition by a major medical device manufacturer.
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Frederick (Rick) R. Ball is a team lead for the Duane Morris Life Sciences and Medical Technologies Group. Mr. Ball helps developers, sponsors, manufacturers, CDMOs. contract service providers, food companies (including supplement manufacturers), pharmacies, and other entities involved in the medical products industry with a myriad of the complex legal issues they face related to regulatory compliance, deal diligence, and litigation. Mr. Ball emphasizes a team approach to client problem solving and manages matters to achieve client goals both financial and legal.
Clients have described "Rick [as an] individual who stands out. He gels with client's team very well, understands their needs, is flexible, innovative, strategizes properly,” via Legal 500.
He is admitted to the Massachusetts State Bar, Illinois State Bar, the Seventh Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court. He is a 1996 cum laude graduate of Cornell Law School and a graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder.
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- Y-mAbs
- Somerset Therapeutics
Work highlights
Represented a leading orthopedic robotics company in its acquisition by a major medical device manufacturer. The transaction positioned the acquirer to become the first company in orthopedics to offer a fully autonomous surgical robot.