Steve Wilcox focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, corporate financing transactions (including public offerings and venture capital investments) and licensing and collaborations. Most of his clients are engaged in the biotech, medical device and pharmaceutical industries. In addition to transactional work, he regularly counsels companies on a range of federal securities and corporate governance matters.
Steve currently specializes in representing large pharmaceutical and medical device companies in complex transactions, including acquisitions, spin-offs, divestitures, strategic investments, collaborations and commercial agreements.
Steve is a founder and former chair of the firm’s Life Sciences Practice Group.
Steve has been counsel to some of the world’s leading companies including AstraZeneca, Bayer, Fresenius, Johnson & Johnson, Medtronic, Pfizer, Schering Plough and Stryker. Steve has also represented medical research institutions such as Cleveland Clinic and The Massachusetts General Hospital in connection with the spin-off or commercialization of their promising technologies. Steve has represented a number of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in the life sciences industry, and the companies they have created, including Blossom Innovations, Eleme Medical, Normoxys, Percardia, Point Therapeutics and Salient Surgical.
Honors & Awards
- Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business (2007-2012)
- PLC Which Lawyer (2010-2011)
- The Best Lawyers in America (2009-2011)
Professional & Civic Activities
- Massachusetts Biotechnology Council, MassMEDIC, AdvaMed and BIO
- Guest lectures on life sciences startup company dynamics at MIT and Harvard Medical School
- Member, Board of Directors of Greater Boston Legal Services, a legal aid charitable organization
- Member, Boston College FIDES
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Education
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JD, cum laude, Boston College Law School, 1980; Member, Boston College Law Review
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BA, summa cum laude, Boston College, 1977; Order of the Cross and Crown
Bar Admissions
- Massachusetts, 1981
- England and Wales, Solicitor, 2011
Memberships & Affiliations
- American Bar Association
- Boston Bar Association
- Massachusetts Bar Association
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