Morrison & Foerster's Life Sciences Practice Group provides a complete range of services to clients around the world.  From concept to commercialization through exit, we serve life sciences companies, research institutions, and the venture capital funds and investment banks that finance them.

Our over 130 life science attorneys are called upon to assist in all phases and kinds of financings, technology transactions, licensing and strategic collaborations, mergers and acquisitions, patent counseling, patent prosecution, patent diligence, and intellectual property litigation.  We also counsel life sciences clients in the areas of product liability, employment and labor, tax, and restructuring.

Members of our Life Sciences Group bring a long history of research and commercial experience to every matter.  We have provided counsel to some of the most notable life sciences companies in the world.  In the last few years, we have represented clients in venture capital financings that have raised more than a billion dollars and have completed more than 125 public offerings and M&A transactions.  We have one of the nation's premier Patent Prosecution and Intellectual-Property-Litigation Practices, with more than 40 PhDs and 20 Master's degrees in fields relevant to our work in life sciences.  Our technology transactions attorneys have represented clients in hundreds of large licensing and collaboration transactions.

We are consistently ranked by independent researchers as among the top providers of services to the life sciences industry.  Chambers and Partners Global, 2009 recognizes us for our "sophisticated work for the crème de la crème of life sciences clients."  Practical Law Company’s Life Sciences Super League 2009 ranks us among the Top 10 firms worldwide.  Legal 500 calls Morrison & Foerster's Life Sciences Practice "[a] strong choice for areas such as pharmaceuticals, biotech and outsourcing, [with] an active M&A practice."