Belinda M. Juran
Retired Partner
Belinda Juran's practice focused on advising clients on technology-centered transactions. She helped biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical device, high technology and service companies achieve their strategic goals by advising them on all phases of their product development and commercialization relationships. Ms. Juran negotiated and advised clients on collaboration, development, distribution, license and service agreements with customers, suppliers, licensors, licensees and other third parties, and on the acquisition and sale of intellectual property and joint venture arrangements. She worked with clients on matters ranging from bet-the-company billion-dollar global strategic collaborations to day-to-day issues. Ms. Juran also provided general corporate advice to public and private companies and has represented companies in venture capital financings, initial public offerings and mergers and acquisitions. She also worked closely with WilmerHale's IP litigation team, negotiating settlement and license agreements to settle ANDA and other litigation matters.
Ms. Juran provided her clients with practical insights by combining her experience and education in technology, business and law. Prior to practicing law, Ms. Juran worked in the high technology industry for several years, where she developed sophisticated computer-aided engineering software, then managed engineering departments. She has also been a consultant to several high technology companies.
Community Activities
Ms. Juran sat on the board of directors of UTEC, the United Teen Equality Center of Lowell, Massachusetts. Through job training, education and social support, UTEC enables Lowell's most disconnected young people to trade violence and poverty for social and economic success.
Professional Activities
Ms. Juran has participated in the M. Ellen Carpenter Financial Literacy Program conducted through the Boston Bar Association.
Experience
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- Represented Infinity Pharmaceuticals in its significant collaborations, including Infinity’s broad drug discovery collaboration with Purdue and the restructuring of that relationship, and Infinity’s collaboration with Intellikine on PI3K and the restructuring of that relationship
- Represented Idenix Pharmaceuticals in its significant collaborations, including, most recently, the reversion of development-stage rights to Idenix through the restructuring of its almost decade-long relationship with Novartis, on which Ms. Juran has advised from its inception
- Represented Constellation Pharmaceuticals in several transactions, including its collaboration and option agreements with Genentech and its funding collaboration with The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society® for BET inhibitor
- Represented Synta Pharmaceuticals in several development and commercialization collaboration, including with Hoffman-La Roche for drugs to treat inflammatory diseases
- Represented The Medicines Company in several development and commercialization collaborations, including its acquisition of Recothrom® assets from Bristol Myers Squibb and their related collaboration
- Represented Enobia Pharma in the negotiation of the earn-out provisions in its acquisition by Alexion Pharmaceuticals, which may entitle Enobia’s stockholders to up to $470 million in milestone payments in addition to the $610 million paid up-front in cash
- Represented Aciex Therapeutics in several transactions, including an ophthalmic collaboration with Portola Pharmaceuticals
- Represented Montreal-based Bellus Health in several transactions, including the acquisition of rights to eprodisate by Celtic Therapeutics
- Represented Millennium Pharmaceuticals in several license and collaboration agreements
- Represented Cerulean Pharma in several drug development and licensing agreements
- Represented Visterra in an antibody discovery collaboration with Pfizer
- Represented Rhythmia Medical in several transactions, including the negotiation of earn-outs in its acquisition by Boston Scientific
- Represented Cubist Pharmaceuticals in a license and supply agreement with Teva to settle ANDA litigation
- Represented Durata Therapeutics in the acquisition of RaQualia’s Japanese rights to dalbavancin, a MRSA compound
- Represented Somaxon Pharmaceuticals in settlement and licensing agreements to settle ANDA litigation
Recognition
- Selected by peers for inclusion in the 2018–2020 editions of the Best Lawyers in America for her biotechnology law practice
- Recommended in the 2016–2019 editions of The Legal 500 United States for her work in M&A/Corporate: Commercial Deals and Contracts; Media, Technology and Telecoms: Technology Transactions; and Healthcare: Life Sciences
- Named a Life Sciences Star in the 2016–2019 editions of LMG Life Sciences for finance and transactional
- Recognized by The Legal 500 United States in 2013 as "a fantastic collaborator" and "outstanding in licensing"
- LMG Life Sciences selected the firm as winner of its “Canadian Impact Deals of the Year” in 2013 award for its representation of Enobia Pharma in the company's acquisition by Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
- Named to the Women's Business Boston's Top 10 Corporate Lawyers list
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Credentials
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Education
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JD, Harvard Law School, 1998
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MBA, Boston University, 1995
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BS, Mathematics, University of Scranton, 1981
summa cum laude
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Admissions
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Massachusetts
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Credentials
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Education
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JD, Harvard Law School, 1998
cum laude -
MBA, Boston University, 1995
magna cum laude -
BS, Mathematics, University of Scranton, 1981
summa cum laude
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Admissions
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Massachusetts
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