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Full Service Law Firm | Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

Specializing in the Intersection of Business &amp; Government

Meet our team of trusted advisors, strategic thinkers, and community builders dedicated to client success.

Learn about our full-service legal and business solutions, designed to address complex challenges for leading organizations across industries.

Access thought leadership, news, and resources to stay informed about the latest trends, legal developments, and industry innovations.

Discover how partnership, bold thinking, and precise execution drive results for clients nationwide.

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Powering Progress in the Life Science and Chemical Sectors

The intersection of science, business, and law can pose unique challenges for companies in the life science and chemical sectors. Succeeding in this rapidly changing, highly competitive industry is as much about strategy and execution as it is about innovation and development.

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From growing your startup to expanding your global enterprise, life science and chemical companies, as well as research universities and commercialization offices, will receive the comprehensive guidance needed to transform your breakthroughs into market-ready solutions or licensable assets. Our multidisciplinary team, which includes Ph.D. scientists and industry veterans, provides strategic legal and regulatory guidance spanning IP protection, FDA and USDA compliance, transactions, dispute resolution, and more to clients in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, chemical, agricultural, and medical device industries.

Our IP team includes a large group of practitioners who hold advanced degrees in disciplines including chemistry, chemical engineering, molecular biology, biochemistry, biomedical engineering, and materials science. Many have practical work experience that informs their perspectives.

Our Approach: Legal and Business Expertise Powered by Deep Industry Knowledge

Gain access to technical expertise, industry-specific insights, and comprehensive legal solutions to accelerate your growth, strengthen your position, and drive your business forward. Our team of attorneys and scientists stays abreast of the legal, regulatory, and market factors impacting your life sciences organizations, so we can support you at every stage from lab to launch.

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Expertise Across the Life Sciences Ecosystem

Intellectual Property

Build a global IP strategy and portfolio in alignment with your growth goals. With over 150 attorneys and technical professionals, including many with Ph.D.s and other advanced credentials, our IP team helps you secure and enforce patents, trademarks, trade secrets, and other IP assets.

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Licensing &amp; Agreements

Rely on our team to structure and negotiate agreements for licensing, technology transfer, co-development, sponsored research, clinical trials, data ownership and use, and manufacturing, supply, and distribution contracts. We also support you through due diligence and the development of comprehensive licensing strategies across research, clinical, and commercial stages.

FDA Regulatory

From product classification and submissions to postmarket compliance and enforcement, we guide you through every stage of the FDA regulatory process. We also advise on related matters involving the FTC, DEA, and USDA, helping you meet regulations while staying competitive.

Healthcare

Seize opportunities, manage risk, and stay compliant with support from our multidisciplinary Healthcare team. We bring deep industry insight and deliver strategic legal guidance across transactions, operations, and regulatory needs.

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We assist best-in-class innovators across the healthcare delivery spectrum. Through our Market Validation Process, we help innovators navigate challenges, validate their solutions, and accelerate market entry via our disciplined, proprietary process informed and supported by key influencers in the industry. Our process is unique in that it provides innovators with both a fact-based comparison to their competitors, and insights behind the facts that actually matter to payer and provider purchasers. After validating a product or solution as market-ready, we introduce the innovator to our Network Partners in the payer or provider space, who ultimately make market access available. Our process paves the way for true innovation to quickly reach the market and improve health outcomes.

We also work with healthcare payers and providers to source specific solutions, where we design a custom use case search, market validation, and connection event, ultimately lowering acquisition costs and early-stage risk.

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Startup &amp; Venture Capital

Through our Venture Best® group, get the guidance you need to structure, grow, and scale your early-stage company. With firsthand entrepreneurial and investment experience, our team helps you build a strong foundation, protect your innovation, secure funding, make key connections, navigate regulatory challenges, and ultimately exit.

Privacy &amp; Cybersecurity

Your data's significant value demands robust protection. We partner with you to maintain compliance while driving innovation, ensuring your data and security practices meet global standards, mitigate your risk, and advance your objectives.

Corporate &amp; Transactions

Michael Best’s Corporate attorneys provide strategic legal counsel covering all phases of the business life cycle including operations, financing, mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures.

Labor &amp; Employment

Our employment team provides proactive advice on employment policies, procedures, and contracts; provides guidance on immigration, benefits, and compensation matters; and helps you seamlessly navigate disputes.

Litigation

We deliver strong litigation support across intellectual property, government investigations, and product liability disputes. With deep trial experience and success in arbitration and mediation, our team helps you handle conflicts both in and out of the courtroom.

Where Legal Insight Meets Scientific Innovation

Managed a pharmaceutical company’s worldwide patent portfolio, providing prosecution and enforcement services, and advising on litigation strategy.

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Successfully represented a pharmaceutical manufacturer in patent infringement litigation and trial relating to an injectable anticoagulant medication.

Provided sophisticated IP due diligence for a biotech start-up company’s new drug development and delivery technology to help the client clear a pathway to the market for their innovation that combats malaria, hepatitis C, and tuberculosis in third-world countries.

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Life Sciences

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