With headquarters in Philadelphia, the intellectual property team at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP handles complex licensing, commercial, and corporate transactions, including joint ventures, IP asset purchases, and IP due diligence, with a wide bench of expertise spanning software, life sciences, electrical, and mechanical patents. Alan Leeds chairs the firm’s life sciences transactions practice from the Princeton office and represents clients ranging from early-stage biotechnology startups to global pharmaceutical companies in strategic alliances, licensing transactions, and joint ventures. Other key team members include Silicon Valley-based Rahul Kapoor, who focuses on IP transactions across the technology and life sciences industries, and Chicago-based Benjamin Pensak, who represents domestic and international life science companies in acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and other collaborations.
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Key clients

  • PTC Therapeutics
  • Merck
  • Bristol Myers Squibb
  • Platinum Equity
  • SanDisk

Work highlights

Advising PTC Therapeutics Inc. on the company's exclusive global license and collaboration with Novartis Pharmaceutical Corp. for its PTC518 Huntington's disease program.
Advises Bristol Myers Squibb in a global strategic partnership with BioNTech SE to co-develop and co-commercialize BNT327, a next-generation antibody targeting PD-L1 and VEGF for the treatment of multiple solid tumor types.
Represented Bristol Myers Squibb in its recent agreement with Bain Capital to create a new independent biopharmaceutical company focused on developing new therapies for autoimmune diseases that address significant unmet needs of patients.

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Leading partners

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Rahul Kapoor
Rahul Kapoor
Alan Leeds
Alan Leeds
Benjamin Pensak
Benjamin Pensak
Practice head

Louis Beardell, Jr; Dion Bregman; Anita Polott; Alan Leeds; Ben Pensak

Other key lawyers

Rahul Kapoor; Suzanne Filippi; Don Shelkey; Amanda Goceljak; Andrew Haupt; Ben Rho; Ben Klaber