New York top tier international law firm focusing on M&A, securities law and structured finance
Pfizer
Senior In-house Counsel
- Lead attorney and a team leader of attorneys focused on advising, structuring, drafting and negotiating sophisticated and often complex life sciences transactions
- Advised C-suite executives and senior leadership teams for Pfizer’s R&D organization for over a decade, and has a firm working grasp of the science behind emerging technologies and product modalities, including RNAi and gene therapy
A representative list of Mark’s transactional matters at Pfizer include:
- Spin-out from Pfizer of SpringWorks LLC
- Exclusive License of worldwide rights to PF-00547659, a Phase II antibody to MadCAM from Pfizer to Shire Pharmaceutical
- Research, Option and License Agreement between Pfizer and WaVe Therapeutics to develop and commercialize oligonucleotide therapeutics
- Exclusive License Agreement with Spark Therapeutics for worldwide rights to gene therapy candidate SPK-9001 for hemophilia B
- Worldwide Co-Promotion Agreement with Boehringer Ingelheim for Spiriva® (tiotropium)
- Worldwide Collaboration and License with Heptares Therapeutics to develop GPCR compounds, together with a $30m investment in Sosei, Heptares’ parent company
- Pfizer Venture Investments Series B venture capital investment in Ixchelsis as a follow-on investment to an entity Pfizer had spun out in 2013
- Exclusive License and Option Agreement with MedGenesis Therapeutix for worldwide rights to a targeted GDNF therapy using a convection enhanced delivery system for treatment of Parkinson’s and other neurological diseases
- Development Funding Collaborations with SFJ for several Pfizer Oncology assets
- Exclusive License Agreement with Gliknik Inc. to develop and commercialize recombinant IVIG therapies to treat auto-immune diseases
- Zoetis Inc. spin-out from Pfizer -- Research Agreement for Zoetis discovery, and mutual Exclusive License Agreements to IP
- Non-Exclusive License with Harbor Antibodies for Pfizer to use Harbour’s transgenic mouse technology
- Exclusive License Agreement with Repligen Inc for RG-3039, a pre-clinical candidate for the treatment of SMA
- Exclusive License from Pfizer to Sequella of worldwide rights to sutezolid, a Phase II compound in clinical development for the treatment of tuberculosis
- Exclusive License with KU Leuven (Belgium) for worldwide rights to Leuven’s LEDGF-integrase inhibitors in development for treatment of HIV
- Acquisition by Pfizer of Wyeth, led integration project for existing business development transactions
- Termination Agreement, together with a royalty-bearing reversion license with Nicox SA for latanoprostene bunod (now marketed by Bausch & as VYZULTA™)
- License, Collaboration and Royalty Agreement with pSivida Limited (and its US subsidiary, pSivida, Inc.) to provide Pfizer with exclusive access to an intravitreal drug delivery device, together with an equity investment and security agreement
- Collaborative Research and License Agreement with PTC to generate compounds for frailty and to screen compounds against other targets using PTC’s GEMS assay
- Installment purchase of a Swedish company to acquire rights to a second-generation device for a marketed Pfizer product
- Collaboration with Monogram Biosciences to supply a CLIA certified companion diagnostic assay to determine HIV phenotypes for maraviroc (now marketed by ViiV as Selzentry®)
- Exclusive License Agreement with Schering AG for ADP Receptor Antagonist Program
- Expansion of worldwide Collaboration Agreement with Altana AG for Daxas® (roflumolast)
- Acquisition by Pfizer of Esperion Pharmaceuticals Inc. for $1.3 billion
- Distribution Agreement with Andrx Corporation for Cardura XL
- Loan of $250 million from Pfizer Treasury Division to an Irish subsidiary of a major insurance company
- License Agreement with Daiichi Pharmaceuticals for exclusive worldwide rights to DK-507, a pre-clinical anti-infective
- License and Collaboration Agreement with Neurocrine Biosciences Inc. for indiplon, a Phase III candidate for insomnia
- Acquisition of Warner-Lambert Company (drafting input on agreements, due diligence, integration, tax restructuring and FTC-mandated divestitures of products.
