Date:  12/01/2006

Time:   Registration: 8:00 am – 8:30 am Programme: 8:30 am – 12:30 pm Networking Lunch: 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Breakfast will be provided.

Location:   Location: Park Hyatt Zurich Beethovenstrasse 21 Zurich 8002 Switzerland

Speaker:   Julian Paul Thurston

Contact:   Rose Hall

Contact Phone:  +44 207 920 4057

Description:  

Please join us for a complimentary seminar at the London offices of Morrison & Foerster. Together with Ferghana Partners, Morrison & Foerster has assembled a group of world-leading business lawyers and business people to discuss some of the issues facing European life science companies as they internationalise. The topics should be of interest to any life science company who has reached, or is about to reach, a point of internationalisation.

Topics include:

• Spectrum Analysis in Strategic Partnering and Collaboration Deals
• International Exit Strategies
• Making M&A and Partnering Deals in the USA and Japan Happen
• IP Due Diligence in Financing and Transactions
• Keeping your House in Order: Preparing for Litigation
• International Tax Structuring Issues for IP Intensive Companies

Speakers include:

• Julian Thurston, Partner, Morrison & Foerster, London
• Kristian Wiggert, Partner, Morrison & Foerster, London
• Ian Crosbie, Managing Director, Ferghana Partners, London
• Alicia Hager, Senior Associate, Morrison & Foerster, Palo Alto
• Rachel Krevans, Partner, Morrison & Foerster, San Francisco
• Trevor James, Partner, Morrison & Foerster, London
• Paul Claydon, Partner, Morrison & Foerster, London

This program is also being offered in the following cities:

• Copenhagen
• Stockholm
• London