Dechert expands IP offering as sector booms
Dechert’s broad intellectual property practice advises on IP strategies for acquisitions or collaborations, while litigators protect valuable assets around the world.
board,” says IP litigation head Marty Black, “strengthening our ability to cover contentious situations requiring highly technical patent expertise.”
In 2021 our national intellectual property team was strengthened by the addition of partners Andrew Wilkins (Boston), Howard Levin (Washington D.C.) and Jennifer Swan (Silicon Valley). Wilkins is a senior patent attorney with over 30 years’ experience. “Andrew’s arrival significantly expands Dechert’s expertise in large molecule drugs, or biologics,” says Andrea L. C. Reid, herself a former medicinal and process chemist. Reid’s IP strategies have resulted in acquisition and investor funding worth over US$16 billion.
Since joining, Wilkins has advised Forbion Capital Partners on its US$148 million Series C investment in Gyroscope Therapeutics to advance its AAV-based gene therapies, and Tectonic Therapeutics on its patent strategy for a US$80 million Series A financing towards its GPCR-targeted therapies pipeline. Litigation duo Levin and Swan deepen Dechert’s capacities in complex pharma and biotech suits. “Howard and Jennifer’s litigation prowess enrich our intellectual property capacity across the
We have to evolve to meet the needs of this fast-changing and innovative sector.” Jeff Plies Partner “
Leading global financial restructuring practice grows
As financial products become ever-more complex and internationalized, clients need sophisticated restructuring advice that understands global markets.
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Ranked by Global Restructuring Review as one of the world’s top five practices, Dechert’s restructuring team combines comprehensive knowledge of complex products with an international presence and cross-border capability. “Drawing on our position as a leader in financial services,” says practice co-chair Allan Brilliant, “we are a firm of choice for credit funds and private equity funds on their most complex restructurings, as well as major companies in sectors such as aviation and energy.”
Dechert has made a series of strategic partner hires during 2021 that strengthen its international financial restructuring practice. In London, we welcomed Adam Plainer as practice co-chair in March, and he was joined by Kay Morley in July. These hires follow from the recruitment of Solomon J. Noh and Alastair Goldrein in London in 2020. In November, Daniel Margulies joined the Hong Kong office to lead the firm’s financial restructuring practice in Asia and build on Dechert’s expertise in financial restructuring in growth markets.
This expansion gives us strength in key financial centers, a presence that
clients need for the type of highly complex cross-border workouts, restructurings, insolvencies and distressed
M&A we undertake.” Adam Plainer Partner
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