Biotechnology

Transactional

• Represented Myriad Genetics, Inc. in multiple acquisitions, including its $375M acquisition of Counsyl, its $225M acquisition of Assurex Health, as well as its $270M acquisition of Crescendo Bioscience, Inc.
• Represented ImmunoGen Inc. (NASDAQ:IMGN), a clinical-stage biotechnology company that develops targeted cancer therapeutics using its proprietary ADC technology, in its $200M sale of a portion of royalty streams for drug product which was licensed to Genentech, a large private biotechnology company.
• Investor-side representation in the $23.9M Series B financing of Veritas Genetics International Limited, led by Trustbridge Partners Consulting (US) Ltd.; Jiangsu Simcere Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.; and Lilly Asia Ventures.
• Represented Vedanta Biosciences, Inc. in its $50M Series B financing led by Rock Springs Capital; Invesco Asset Management; Health For Life Capital (Seventure); and PureTech.
• Represented Intarcia Therapeutics, Inc. in its $300M synthetic royalty financing led by various existing and institutional investors.

Intellectual Property

• Represent one of the nation's leading academic research centers in helping to determine the value and quality of ideas presented to the technology transfer office by inventors. The Mintz team creaties and implements patenting strategies to position select assets for the greatest success in the market for this institution, which is very focused on launching successful commercial ventures with its inventors’ ideas. Among the dozens of patent families managed by the firm are complex biotech, chemical and medical technology assets, including therapeutic agents in clinical trials and medical devices in current clinical use.
• Represent one of the top medical schools and universities in the United States. Assist in the preparation, filing, and prosecution of patent applications directed to cancer therapy, tissue regeneration, and neurological disorders such as the use of a compound derived from an herb used in ancient Chinese medicine to treat seizure disorders.
• Represent as lead patent counsel since 1999 a biotech company focused on probiotic and nutraceutical products, which at the time had a small portfolio. The firm has helped to grow this portfolio to more than 250 global applications and issued patents, covering products such as probiotic foods and beverages, probiotic supplements, topical applications and feed additives for use in animal health and livestock production which are now sold in major retail centers across the country.
• Mintz has been representing IDEAYA Biosciences as its lead patent counsel since early 2017, and has developed the patent portfolios protecting all of the company’s programs, including for its first issued patents, and dozens of additional applications pending in the US and in key international jurisdictions.
• Represent as lead patent counsel a client focused on improving the lives of people with cancer through innovative antibody-based therapies. The company's lead product is used to treat patients with classical Hodgkin lymphoma and systemic anaplastic large cell lymphoma. In addition to patent prosecution and strategy, the firm has helped to successfully defend against oppositions filed in Europe and the equivalent in invalidation proceedings in Japan.
• Serve as patent counsel for a drug discovery and development company that has generated a revolutionary new class of anti-microbial and ‘gene silencing’ compounds in its efforts to combat the increasing risks posed by infectious disease, including those classed as "super bugs". Issuance of a number of patents prosecuted by the Mintz team proved instrumental in our client's successfully concluding a transaction to co-develop antibiotic surgical materials with a strategic partner.

Litigation

• Won an arbitration award, following over a week of trial, completely dismissing all claims of material breach of a collaboration agreement that would have deprived our client, an international biotech company, of its fifty percent interest in a billion-dollar drug.
• Provided compliance advice on fraud and abuse issues to the world’s largest biotech company with differentiated medicines in oncology, virology, inflammation, and metabolism and the world leader in in-vitro diagnostics and tissue-based cancer diagnostics.