LONDON – September 2, 2024 – Morgan Lewis welcomes as companions in London Hiroshi Sheraton and Luciana Griebel, two achieved legal professionals targeted on the life sciences trade. A veteran mental property (IP) litigator, Sheraton arrives from Baker McKenzie, and Griebel, a transactional lawyer, will arrive from Covington & Burling on September 6. Both will proceed to help firms in the life sciences sector on high-stakes IP, patent, and model issues, and with world acquisitions and divestitures, non-public fairness transactions, and strategic investments, respectively.
“As innovation continues apace in the life sciences sector, our clients count on us to assert or defend patent cases in global markets and assess and mitigate transactional risk as they pursue strategic acquisitions and partnerships in the industry,” stated agency Chair Jami McKeon. “Hiroshi and Luciana each bring a background and targeted skillset to help global pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies protect their products and brands and achieve their growth objectives.”
“Hiroshi and Luciana accentuate our firm’s investment into our life sciences capabilities in London, Europe, and around the world,” stated Kathleen Sanzo, co-leader of the agency’s life sciences trade group. “Their respective focus on critical IP issues and M&A will benefit clients doing cross-border business in these markets and beyond, and position them well to work with colleagues across practices and jurisdictions.”
“Their collaborative nature and knowledge of the unique needs of life sciences clients make Hiroshi and Luciana fantastic additions to our team,” stated Frances Murphy, managing accomplice of the agency’s London workplace. “We look forward to welcoming and getting to know our new colleagues better.”
Sheraton and Griebel’s arrival follows former pharma pricing in-house counsel Stephen Forster becoming a member of the agency’s Washington, DC workplace in March 2024, and is the newest in numerous hires for Morgan Lewis’s London workplace together with secondaries accomplice Ted Craig in July 2024 and former UK privateness and cybersecurity regulatory official Vishnu Shankar in October 2023.
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Sheraton’s apply focuses on contentious patent and trademark points and life sciences issues. He usually coordinates pan-European and world IP litigation and advises shoppers on worldwide IP methods for patent litigation and different types of exclusivity. Sheraton additionally represents life sciences shoppers in IP licensing, collaboration, and growth issues.
Griebel continuously advises on cross-border transactions and acts for firms in any respect levels of growth, in addition to traders and administration groups. She usually represents main life sciences and know-how firms in important transactions and assists shoppers with company governance, compliance, and different issues. Fluent in a number of languages, Griebel speaks English, French, German, Italian, Romanian, and Spanish.