On November 19, 2021, Wilson Sonsini partner John Wehrli was recognized by Best Lawyers as a 2022 "Lawyer of the Year" in San Diego for Biotechnology and Life Sciences Practice. John has contributed to a wide array of multi-billion dollar deals in his career, guiding life science companies through complex procedures in intellectual property litigation.

“I’ve devoted my entire professional life working in the life science industry as a scientist, entrepreneur, public company executive, and life science lawyer in private practice. I have always said that what I love about my job is serving an industry that I love because, at a minimum, it improves the quality of life of tens of millions of people every year, and often saves them. How many industries can say that? Every person in the industry is invaluable, from lab-tech to CEO. It is rewarding that I can play my part by helping my clients structure company defining and industry changing complex cross-border strategic transactions that result in products that improve quality of life around the world.”

In addition John's former work as a research chemist and service at the U.S. Department of Energy and UC San Diego, The Best Lawyers profile also discusses his recent work aiding the completion of a strategic collaboration between two major Japanese pharmaceutical companies.

"Our Japanese client JCR Pharmaceuticals and Japanese pharmaceutical giant Takeda collaborated for a novel recombinant fusion protein for the treatment of Hunter Syndrome, a very debilitating genetic metabolic disease. What is unique is that this product crosses the blood brain barrier via transferring receptors into neuronal cells so can treat neuronopathic aspects of the disease on the CNS."

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