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Lauren Leonard

Senior Associate

Lauren Leonard is a corporate lawyer who provides ongoing counsel to public and private life sciences and technology companies throughout their lifecycle as well as investors and other financial institutions. 

As an attorney in WilmerHale’s Technology Transactions and Licensing Practice, Ms. Leonard advises clients on various IP-related transactions including licensing arrangements, strategic collaborations and alliances, technology acquisitions and divestitures and development, services, distribution, manufacturing, supply, clinical trial and other complex commercial agreements. As well as advising clients on IP-related transactions, Ms. Leonard regularly counsels clients regarding general and complex corporate matters including venture capital and other financings, formation and corporate governance, contract negotiations, employment and equity compensation matters, securities laws compliance and protection of intellectual property. 

Ms. Leonard was previously a summer associate at WilmerHale. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Leonard was a student attorney at the Startup Law Clinic at Boston University School of Law where she advised entrepreneurs on legal matters including corporate governance, intellectual property and financing. Previously, Ms. Leonard was a clinical manufacturing and regulatory sciences intern with Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. In those roles, she conducted studies to improve the manufacturing process and streamlined regulatory processes across multiple stages of drug product submissions, including FDA submissions and internal reports.

Experience

    • Roche, a multinational healthcare company, in its exclusive collaboration and licensing agreement with Zealand Pharma, a biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of innovative peptide-based medicines.
    • Ratio Therapeutics, a pharmaceutical company employing innovative technologies to develop best-in-class radiopharmaceuticals for cancer treatment and monitoring, on its exclusive worldwide license and collaboration agreement for the development of a Somatostatin Receptor 2 (SSTR2) radiotherapeutic candidate for cancer.
    • Lexicon Pharmaceuticals in its exclusive license agreement with Novo Nordisk for an oral non-incretin development candidate in obesity and associated metabolic disorders.
    • An antibody services and technology provider in library development agreements with various partners, including AstraZeneca, Scholar Rock and Biogen.
    • Verve Therapeutics in a strategic collaboration with Vertex Pharmaceuticals, a global biotechnology company.
    • ImaginAb in its divestiture of its radiopharmaceutical therapy business to Telix Pharmaceuticals.
    • Benu Networks, a leading software and solutions provider, in its acquisition by Ciena Corporation.
    • Eliem Therapeutics in its acquisition of Tenet Medicines, a development-stage private biotechnology company.
    • Iveric Bio in the acquisition by Opus Genetics of Iveric Bio’s emerging gene therapies for inherited retinal diseases.
    • Zaius, a customer data platform (CDP), in its acquisition by Optimizely (formerly Episerver), a leading provider of digital experience platform solutions.
    • Amplitude Healthcare Acquisition Corporation in its business combination with Jasper Therapeutics.

Recognition

  • Named to the 2025 Life Sciences Awards Shortlist for US Rising Star – Financial & Corporate
  • Selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch for corporate law (2025).

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Credentials

  • Education

    • JD, Boston University School of Law, 2019

      summa cum laude

      Senior Editor, Boston University Law Review

      Edward F. Hennessey Scholar, Paul J. Liacos Distinguished Scholar, G. Joseph Tauro Distinguished Scholar, Alumni Academic Achievement Award

    • BS, Biomedical Engineering, University at Buffalo Honors College, 2016

      summa cum laude

  • Admissions

    • Massachusetts

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