Anita Nador is a partner at McCarthy Tétrault LLP and an Executive member of the firm's National Life Sciences Group.
Ms. Nador's practice focuses on strategic intellectual property, scientific and commercialization planning in the life sciences area, including pharmaceuticals, biologics, plants, natural health products, and medical devices. Her practice involves all areas of intellectual property law, regulatory and compliance matters, including issues relating to the Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) [PM(NOC)] Regulations, the Patented Medicines Prices Review Board [PMPRB], reimbursement and pharmaceutical marketing, such as matters involving the Pharmaceutical Advertising Advisory Board [PAAB], RX&D Code of Ethical Practices, and health care professionals' codes of conduct. Ms. Nador also assists clients with related agreements, such as license, development, clinical trial, consulting, and master services agreements and has conducted due diligence on many commercial transactions and financings.
Ms. Nador's clients include large international companies, and academic and research institutions, start-up companies and commercial investors and researchers. Before law school, she conducted research at Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts and at Allelix Biopharmaceuticals in Mississauga, Ontario.
Ms. Nador is actively involved in several professional organizations. She was a director of the Toronto Biotechnology Initiative (TBI) for 15 years and was actively involved with many committees of the Licensing Executives Society including being co-chair of the Toronto chapter. Ms. Nador also regularly speaks, teaches and writes on topics related to intellectual property, regulatory compliance and technology transfer issues. She is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto in the Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation teaching law to students in the Masters of Management of Innovation program.
Ms. Nador is listed in the 2011 Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, a guide to the leading law firms and practitioners in Canada, as a leading lawyer in the area of biotechnology.
Ms. Nador received her BA in molecular biophysics and biochemistry from Yale University and her LLB. from the University of Toronto. She was called to the Ontario bar in 1995. Ms. Nador is a registered patent agent in Canada and the United States, and a registered Canadian trade-mark agent.