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Matthew J. Meyer
Chief Business Advisor, Life Sciences Business Advisory
Corporate
San Francisco
mjmeyer@wsgr.com

D415-947-2097

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Matthew J. Meyer is chief business advisor for life sciences at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Based in San Francisco, Matthew leads the firm's life science business advisory practice—a newly formed, innovative resource aimed at providing start-up and emerging life sciences companies with business insights, capabilities, and strategies to help them thrive and address some of their most challenging issues.

Matthew is an experienced executive and attorney who has held diverse roles of increasing responsibility across a wide range of private and public biopharma, medtech, and precision medicine companies from start-ups to Fortune 50 in the U.S. and Europe, including Pfizer, Novartis, and CareDx. His leadership capabilities include delivery of strong commercial results, structuring and executing partnering transactions across the product life cycle, raising debt and equity capital in the private and public markets, and working with founders, management teams, and boards to address complex business issues to support rapid growth.

Prior to joining Wilson Sonsini, Matthew was managing director of Allwell Life Science Advisors, a boutique life science advisory firm focused on biotech start-ups and emerging growth companies. Previously, he was senior vice president of corporate development at Counsyl, a venture and private equity-backed personalized medicine company that was acquired by Myriad Genetics in 2018.

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Matthew J. Meyer is chief business advisor for life sciences at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Based in San Francisco, Matthew leads the firm's life science business advisory practice—a newly formed, innovative resource aimed at providing start-up and emerging life sciences companies with business insights, capabilities, and strategies to help them thrive and address some of their most challenging issues.

Matthew is an experienced executive and attorney who has held diverse roles of increasing responsibility across a wide range of private and public biopharma, medtech, and precision medicine companies from start-ups to Fortune 50 in the U.S. and Europe, including Pfizer, Novartis, and CareDx. His leadership capabilities include delivery of strong commercial results, structuring and executing partnering transactions across the product life cycle, raising debt and equity capital in the private and public markets, and working with founders, management teams, and boards to address complex business issues to support rapid growth.

Prior to joining Wilson Sonsini, Matthew was managing director of Allwell Life Science Advisors, a boutique life science advisory firm focused on biotech start-ups and emerging growth companies. Previously, he was senior vice president of corporate development at Counsyl, a venture and private equity-backed personalized medicine company that was acquired by Myriad Genetics in 2018.

Education
  • J.D., Villanova University School of Law
  • B.A., Government, Cornell UniversityCum Laude
Admissions
  • State Bar of New York
  • Not admitted in California
Credentials
Education
  • J.D., Villanova University School of Law
  • B.A., Government, Cornell UniversityCum Laude
Admissions
  • State Bar of New York
  • Not admitted in California
Focus Areas
  • Biotech
  • Corporate
  • Corporate Life Sciences
  • Life Sciences
  • Life Sciences Business Advisory Practice
  • Medical Devices
  • Technology Transactions
Recent Insights
Case Studies
How Wilson Sonsini Helped Foresight Diagnostics with Its Growth, Scale-Up, and Acquisition
Foresight Diagnostics is a leading cancer diagnostics company founded in 2020 and spun out of Stanford University. Foresight has developed a novel liquid biopsy testing platform for the measurement of minimal residual disease that is significantly more sensitive than existing tests. Its technology, called PhasED-SeqTM, is based on a simple blood draw and next-generation sequencing. It is broadly applicable to a variety of cancers, and its ability to detect circulating tumor DNA at levels of 0.0001 percent (or one part-per-million) has the potential to provide actionable information to physicians and biopharmaceutical companies, thus enabling the development of a more proactive and personalized treatment approach.
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Client Highlights
Wilson Sonsini Advises Foresight Diagnostics on Acquisition by Natera
On December 5, 2025, Natera, Inc., a global leader in cell-free DNA and precision medicine, and Foresight Diagnostics, a leader in ultrasensitive molecular residual disease (MRD) detection, announced that Natera has completed its acquisition of Foresight in an all-stock transaction consisting of a $275 million upfront payment with an additional $175 million in earnouts tied to the achievement of revenue- and reimbursement-based milestones. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati advised Foresight on the transaction.

The transaction combines Natera’s leading commercial and operational infrastructure for the delivery of personalized MRD testing with Foresight’s unique phased variant technology and leadership in lymphoma. It builds on Natera’s broad intellectual property portfolio for tumor-informed and personalized MRD products including in phased variants, and promises to accelerate MRD adoption in lymphoma and other solid tumor types.
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Speaking Engagements
Colorado BioScience Association Thought Leadership Series: Finding Success in a Challenging Funding Environment
Wilson Sonsini, in partnership with EY and Colorado BioScience Association, invites you to an in-depth program bringing together leaders, investors, and innovators from across Colorado’s life sciences ecosystem discussing our current funding environment.  
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Speaking Engagements
Swissnex Startup Pitch Night
We're happy to support Swissnex Startup Pitch Night, where the latest technologies from Switzerland’s most innovative health tech start-ups are presented. Matt Meyer will be speaking.
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