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McDermott Will & Emery is dedicated to investing in innovation and serving the early stage life sciences community that creates new and revolutionary products and services. We understand that sophisticated legal services are necessary to help these groundbreaking individuals and organizations succeed. McDermott is proud to have created the Life Sciences Entrepreneurs Acceleration Program (LEAP) to help qualifying entrepreneurs and young companies avoid costly mistakes and chart their courses to success by providing support and affordable access to strategic legal advice. We provide these organizations with high quality legal services during the earliest stages of corporate life through engagement incentives in the form of deferred fees, discounts, fixed-fee arrangements and/or awards.

We understand that early stage life sciences clients need legal advice in such complex areas as corporate formation, financing, intellectual property, licensing and collaborations, and employee benefits. Our Life Sciences Industry Group has a deep bench of lawyers that are highly regarded in these specific practices. Our corporate lawyers have demonstrated success in advising life sciences companies on the full range of transactional legal needs, including licensing and partnering, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, public offerings and royalty stream financing. Our intellectual property lawyers are renowned for protecting the IP rights of our clients both in and out of court. Finally, McDermott is a pioneer in the field of employee benefits and has been advising life sciences companies on various compensation strategies to both secure and maintain leadership.