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Miranda Biven
Partner
Miranda advises life sciences clients in partnering and licensing arrangements, M&A, and other transactions.
Matthew Bresnahan
Partner
Matt is primary outside IP counsel to more than 50 life sciences companies in Southern California.
Nellie J. Brutocao
Partner
Nellie Brutocao is a partner in the technology transactions practice at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Her practice focuses on the life sciences industry, representing public and private companies in intellectual property and commercial transactions, including strategic alliances, research and development collaborations, technology licenses and acquisitions, supply, distribution and manufacturing agreements, sponsored research agreements, clinical trials arrangements, material transfer agreements, and co-promotion arrangements. She has also represented life sciences companies in complex commercial and patent disputes, including Hatch-Waxman litigation.
Benjamin J. Capps
Partner
Ben helps public and private life sciences companies at all stages of development with corporate governance and transactional matters.
Kassandra K. Castillo
Partner
Kassandra K. Castillo practices corporate and securities law in the San Diego office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where she serves as outside general counsel and advises life sciences and technology companies at all stages of development. She works closely with entrepreneurs to counsel them through initial company formation issues, day-to-day corporate governance matters, venture capital financing transactions, and liquidity events. She also counsels venture capital funds on structuring and executing investment transactions and managing their existing portfolio companies.
Kenneth A. Clark
Partner
Ken focuses on life sciences clients and often acts as outside legal counsel to biotechnology companies and their boards.
Ingo Hardt
Partner
Dr. Ingo Hardt is a partner in the San Diego office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he assists with the preparation and prosecution of patent applications in the fields of chemistry, pharmaceuticals, and biotechnology. He has been a registered patent agent since 2003.
Michael Hostetler
Partner
Based in the SOMA and San Diego offices, Mike Hostetler provides strategic IP counseling to growth enterprises in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology, and information technology industries.
Dan R. Koeppen
Partner
Dan Koeppen is a corporate and securities partner in the firm's San Diego office. Dan specializes in corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, and venture capital financings. He has extensive experience representing public and private life science and technology companies in a wide range of sectors, including biotechnology, consumer products, data security, medical device, pharmaceutical, semiconductor, software, and social media, through all stages of their growth from start-up to mature public companies. In addition, Dan represents leading investment banks in their underwriting transactions, and regularly advises numerous venture capital firms and corporate strategic investors in connection with their investments in emerging growth companies.
Samantha Alexandria-Booth Machock
Partner
Samantha Machock is a partner in the San Diego office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where she is a member of the internet strategy and litigation group. Samantha’s practice focuses on representing technology and healthcare companies in complex, high-stakes consumer class and mass actions, particularly those involving cutting-edge consumer protection, false advertising, privacy, and cybersecurity-related claims. She has secured victories for her clients on a wide range of dispositive motions and class action issues: Recent victories include dismissal of claims against a generative AI service for allegedly misleading users, dismissal of a putative TCPA class action, and dismissal of claims seeking to create novel privacy rights for drivers under California’s Unfair Competition Law. Samantha is currently lead counsel for YouTube and Google in hundreds of cases alleging youth addiction and other harms as a result of YouTube’s design.
Phillip S. McGill
Partner
Phillip (Phil) McGill is a partner in the San Diego office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he represents clients on corporate and securities law matters in the life sciences and technology sectors. His practice is focused on being a strategic partner to companies throughout each phase of the corporate life cycle, with an emphasis on guiding companies through late-stage financings and exits, as well as post-IPO public company representation. He has particular expertise collaborating with venture capital firms and universities as counsel to companies formed through their discovery engine and incubator programs.
Laurie K. McNamara
Partner
Dr. Laurie McNamara is a partner in the San Diego and San Francisco offices of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where she focuses her practice on matters related to intellectual property and patent prosecution strategy for early-stage through clinical-stage therapeutics companies. She counsels clients on matters related to global patent portfolio development and strategy, non-infringement, patentability, and freedom-to-operate studies. She advises company clients in connection with major financial transactions such as collaboration agreements, venture financings, merger & acquisitions, and public offerings. In addition to company-side representation, Laurie works with top venture capital firms related to IP diligence of target companies for financings. Laurie has represented venBio, OrbiMed, Logos Capital, Venrock, Foresight Capital, Novo Holdings, Vida Ventures, Avalon BioVentures, Two Bear Capital, and Samsara BioCapital in connection with financings of target companies developing biologics therapeutic programs.
Natalie J. Morgan
Partner
Natalie Morgan focuses her practice primarily on patent litigation, and she has been trial counsel in jury, bench, International Trade Commission, and arbitration trials in patent cases. Her cases have covered diverse technologies, including life sciences, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals in Hatch-Waxman patent litigation, and medical devices, as well as software, graphical user interfaces, electronic trading, cellular and wireless telecommunications, and mechanical products in varied fields.
Zachary B. Myers
Partner
Zach advises entrepreneurs, innovative companies and other clients on corporate matters.
Megan Arthur Schilling
Partner
Megan Arthur Schilling is a partner in the San Diego office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati with more than 15 years of experience advising on sophisticated multidisciplinary executive compensation, benefits, and corporate governance matters. Her clients include a broad range of public and private companies, from large-cap, widely known multinationals to small emerging growth companies and individual executives.