Matt Bresnahan, Partner, Wilson Sonsini

Matt Bresnahan is a partner in the San Diego and Los Angeles offices of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he has focused his practice for the past fifteen years on establishing and building biotech companies. Matt’s training is in all aspects of intellectual property, including strategic patent counseling, patent prosecution, licensing, and litigation. Matt is primary outside IP counsel to more than 50 life sciences companies within the biotechnology, therapeutic, genomics, and medical device fields in Southern California.

Matt leads a team of more than 30 patent attorneys and patent agents based in the San Diego office. A significant number of Matt’s clients are life science spin-outs from, or collaborators with, the one or more of the major universities, hospitals, and research institutions in Southern California.