Whether guiding regulatory compliance, building strategic patent portfolios or prosecuting, defending and enforcing quality patents that consistently withstand challenges, Perkins Coie advises and represents life sciences leaders, healthcare companies and emerging innovators.

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Whether guiding regulatory compliance, building strategic patent portfolios or prosecuting, defending and enforcing quality patents that consistently withstand challenges, Perkins Coie advises and represents life sciences leaders, healthcare companies and emerging innovators.

We also help create new opportunities within this fast-paced industry as we steer clients’ venture capital financings, initial public offerings (IPOs), licensing agreements and other defining transactions.

Focal areas include: 

  • Healthcare: Our diverse client group includes hospitals, healthcare systems, medical centers, laboratories and others, whom we advise on clinical business, litigation, real estate, reimbursement, regulatory compliance matters, supply chain and issues connected to fraud, antitrust, tax, privacy and security.
  • Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals: An international biotech and pharmaceuticals team of more than 80 lawyers, patent agents and science advisers address the inherent challenges of clients’ collective mission to cure disease and improve people’s health as well as the regulations that govern these pursuits in a wide range of areas, from corporate matters to technology licensing and intellectual property.
  • Medical Device: In our comprehensive counsel to medical device startups, large manufacturers, research institutions, universities and others, we work with clients whose technologies span from cardiovascular and optics to renal care, lasers, surgical tools and more.

We also help create new opportunities within this fast-paced industry as we steer clients’ venture capital financings, initial public offerings (IPOs), licensing agreements and other defining transactions.

Focal areas include: 

  • Healthcare: Our diverse client group includes hospitals, healthcare systems, medical centers, laboratories and others, whom we advise on clinical business, litigation, real estate, reimbursement, regulatory compliance matters, supply chain and issues connected to fraud, antitrust, tax, privacy and security.
  • Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals: An international biotech and pharmaceuticals team of more than 80 lawyers, patent agents and science advisers address the inherent challenges of clients’ collective mission to cure disease and improve people’s health as well as the regulations that govern these pursuits in a wide range of areas, from corporate matters to technology licensing and intellectual property.
  • Medical Device: In our comprehensive counsel to medical device startups, large manufacturers, research institutions, universities and others, we work with clients whose technologies span from cardiovascular and optics to renal care, lasers, surgical tools and more.

Industry & Technical Strengths

When providing regulatory, litigation and corporate counsel to life sciences startups, pharmaceutical companies and institutions devoted to education and research, Perkins Coie attorneys combine in-depth legal experience with technical strength. 

Many of our life sciences lawyers hold advanced degrees in molecular biology, chemistry or biophysics. Fields of concentration include:

  • AI diagnostic tools and drug discovery

  • Antibody, peptibody, and ADC therapeutics and diagnostics

  • Biologics and biosimilars

  • Cancer diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines

  • Cellular therapeutics

  • Drug discovery, development, and formulation

  • Gene editing including CRISPR technology

  • Gene therapy including non-viral and viral gene delivery

  • Genetic testing including cfDNA diagnostics and NIPT

  • Genetically engineered cells and microorganisms

  • Immunology including autoimmune treatment and diagnostics

  • Immunotherapy including CAR-T and TCR therapy

  • Microfluidics, microplates, and microarrays

  • Nanotechnology

  • Nucleic acid sequencing and multiplex screening

  • NexGen Sequencing

  • Peptide design and therapeutics

  • Personalized medicine/precision medicine

  • Pharmaceuticals

  • Protein identification, characterization, and therapeutics

  • Small molecule identification, synthesis, and therapeutics

  • Stem cell generation, modification, and therapy

  • Targeted drug delivery

  • Viral diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines, including COVID-19

We extend the power of our representation through various blogs and publications, active participation in industry associations, and service on boards of directors of several life sciences organizations.

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