Farah Gerdes, Partner, Wilson Sonsini
Farah Gerdes founded and leads the technology transactions practice in Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati’s Boston office, where she focuses on the representation of pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and diagnostic companies in complex collaboration and partnering transactions. She advises numerous domestic and international, public and private life sciences companies on business transactions related to the discovery, development, supply, and commercialization of life sciences products and technologies. She counsels her clients with respect to the structuring and negotiation of a wide range of agreements, including strategic alliances, joint ventures, incubator structures, options, and build-to-buy arrangements, each designed to maximize the value of their assets. In addition, Farah helps companies with a broad range of other transactions, including technology and asset acquisition, license, discovery, research, development (including clinical development), manufacture and supply, promotion, marketing, distribution, and services agreements. She works closely with her clients in setting strategic direction and structuring and negotiating mission-critical business arrangements. As a complement to her transactional IP practice, Farah advises her life sciences clients on a variety of FDA regulatory and healthcare issues, in the context of their business transactions. Farah’s clients include notable industry leaders in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and diagnostic industries. She has represented Recursion Pharmaceuticals in partnering deals with Takeda, Bayer, and Roche/Genentech. She also advised Ultragenyx in its license agreement with Regeneron for the commercialization of Evinacumab outside the US. Other high-profile clients include Tango Therapeutics, Zymeworks, Theravance Biopharma, Rheos Medicines, NanoString Technologies, Neon Therapeutics, GRAIL, Mylan, oresight VISION4, and Neurotechnology Innovations Translator. Gerdes was named a “2023 Top Women of Law” honoree by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly and made it to the “Rising Stars” list by Northern California Super Lawyers from 2011 to 2015.
