Life Sciences

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.

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.

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.

• 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.
• 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.