WilmerHale Attorneys Named Rising Stars by Massachusetts Super Lawyers

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For companies in the life sciences sphere, licensing intellectual property and establishing strategic alliances are critical. WilmerHale’s experienced licensing lawyers shepherd biotech, pharmaceutical, healthcare and medical device clients of all sizes through the complex transactions that make their businesses possible, including a broad range of licensing, collaboration, strategic alliance and joint venture agreements. Our attorneys also excel at brokering manufacturing and supply agreements, contract research and development agreements, distribution and commercialization services agreements, and material transfer and confidentiality agreements. They also frequently represent life sciences clients as they license patents—often the foundations of their companies—from, and sponsor research at, leading academic institutions across the United States and Europe. Backed not only by their own experience but also the deep well of knowledge possessed by the firm’s patent, tax, antitrust and EU competition lawyers, our transactional attorneys are ready to handle even the most multifaceted matters. Our team helps clients protect their innovations, forge strategic alliances, and successfully navigate a complex, dynamic industry.
Our clients in the ever-changing and fiercely competitive hardware, software, IT and services industries depend on us to strategize and negotiate transactions that take advantage of opportunities now while protecting their innovations and preserving flexibility for the future. We structure, negotiate and draft all types of licensing, distribution, product development, joint venture and strategic alliance agreements for these clients, often drawing on the deep experience of WilmerHale’s unique capabilities in regulatory, intellectual property, corporate and tax law. We represent both mature and emerging companies with business models centered around offering software and/or professional services relating to analyzing and extracting insights from large data sets. We frequently draft and negotiate data license agreements, software-as-a-service (SaaS) agreements, website terms and other services agreements in which data is the core subject of the license. We also advise technology clients on big data issues that arise in outsourcing, joint venture and other transactional matters. Our attorneys keep a close watch on internet-related legislative and regulatory developments in the United States, the European Union and elsewhere, and leverage our up-to-the-minute knowledge to advise clients in areas such as data privacy and security, copyright infringement, and export restrictions.
WilmerHale has played a leading role in shaping the rules that govern the financial services industry in the United States.

Massachusetts Super Lawyers recently named twenty-nine WilmerHale attorneys to its 2005 Massachusetts Rising Stars list. Super Lawyers' Rising Stars are selected as the up-and-coming attorneys in their respective practice areas by their peers and verified by the attorney-led research staff at Law & Politics.

The Rising Stars list includes both private practice attorneys and attorneys in non-private practice areas such as prosecutors, in-house counsel, judges and public service lawyers. Approximately 2.5 percent of the best up-and-coming attorneys in the state make the final list. To ensure a diverse and well-balanced list, the research staff considers factors such as firm size, practice area and geographic location.

The following WilmerHale lawyers were selected for the 2005 Massachusetts Rising Stars list:

Michael Bain (Securities & Venture Finance)
Steven Barrett (Intellectual Property)
Michael Bongiorno (Securities & Venture Finance)
Sean Boulger (Real Estate)
Stephen Edwards (Real Estate)
Stuart Falber (Securities & Venture Finance)
Vinita Ferrera (Intellectual Property Litigation)
Joseph Haag (Intellectual Property)
Lauren Harrington (Securities & Venture Finance)
Saklaine Hedaraly (Business Litigation)
Julie Hogan (Tax)
Dennis Jenkins (Bankruptcy and Workout)
Peter Kolovos (Securities Litigation)
Nicola Lemay (Tax)
Christina Lim (Securities & Venture Finance)
Dominic Massa (Intellectual Property Litigation)
Leonard Pierce (Securities & Venture Finance)
Laura Schneider (Labor & Employment)
Mark Selwyn (Intellectual Property Litigation)
Jonathan Shapiro (Securities Litigation)
George Shuster, Jr. (Bankruptcy and Workout)
Michael Summersgill (Intellectual Property Litigation)
Colleen Superko (Intellectual Property Law)
Wendell Taylor (Corporate Finance)
Cynthia Vreeland (Intellectual Property Litigation)
Kimberly Wethly (Tax)
Gregory Woods (Corporate Finance)

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