Troutman Sanders LLP

Troutman Sanders LLP’s Life Sciences Practice Team serves a broad range of clients within the life sciences and associated technology industries from product conception to development and onward through clinical testing and regulatory approval to sales and marketing and post-marketing claims of product liability. Members of the team provide counsel to life sciences clients in the areas of federal regulatory issues (FDA, FTC, USDA), clinical development, intellectual property prosecution, litigation and freedom to operate, product liability litigation, International Nonproprietary Names (INN) creation and approval, compliance, commercialization, corporate and finance. Our IP team has extensive experience before the International Trade Commission (ITC), as well as the Federal Courts across the United States. It also has a high success rate before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. The life sciences industries the firm serves include the following:

• Pharmaceuticals
• Biotechnology
• Medical Devices
• Biologics
• Veterinarian Medicine
• Contract Manufacturing
• Clinical Trials
• Agribusiness
• Food
• Botanical Products
• Dietary Supplements/Nutriceuticals
• Over-the-Counter Medicines
• Cosmetics
• Animal Feed
• Tobacco

The life sciences industry is uniquely positioned to provide life enhancing developments by fostering cutting-edge technology and creating new hope for the treatment of diseases, providing healthier foods to market, and safer over the counter products. Growth in the life sciences is due in large part to the diversity of life science companies and the ability of these companies to respond to market and regulatory demands. Given that market and regulatory demands are global in nature, such companies can only truly capitalize on their individual potential by tapping into the global marketplace. Expansion into the global marketplace requires legal counsel experienced in protecting and leveraging a company’s assets on a global basis. To ensure profitable growth, these diverse life sciences companies must anticipate, control and respond to the many challenges they face in moving their products to market. This requires legal counsel that understands the life science industry generally and, more specifically, the demands on each type of life science company and is able to provide the vast array of legal services that these differing and diverse companies require. To most effectively service clients within the life sciences, it is imperative that a firm have global experience and a global reach.

Troutman Sanders is committed to assisting clients in the global marketplace. We represent life sciences companies in the United States, Europe, Greater China, Canada, Israel and elsewhere throughout the world, and our attorneys are well-versed in cross border and international matters in the life sciences sector with extensive experience in multi-jurisdictional transactions, litigation, and IP-related counseling, providing its clients with an edge in the global marketplace in product development, product protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights and risk management.

The Troutman Sanders Life Sciences Practice Team represents companies within the life sciences industry through all stages of development including the following:

• Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Regulations
• Clinical Development
• Intellectual Property Prosecution, Protection, Enforcement and Defense
• Post-Approval or Commercialization Issues
• Corporate and Financing Issues
• Risk Management and Litigation

Troutman Sanders LLP’s “client team” approach enables the firm to draw upon its diverse practice groups according to client specific needs for experience, industry knowledge, responsiveness and cost-effectiveness. The Life Sciences Practice Team is particularly well positioned to marshal its skill sets and experience of the firm’s individual practice groups to offer life sciences industry clients a full range of comprehensive legal services–including regulatory, intellectual property, litigation, tax, tobacco, corporate and securities (including private and public funding, governance and public offerings), information technology and labor and employment areas.

Troutman Sanders embraces diversity as a cornerstone of our future. It means, in part, a commitment by all of our attorneys and all other personnel to a shared vision and the establishment of a workplace environment that is fully inclusive. The Firm values diversity in that it enables the Firm both to take full advantage of the knowledge and talents of a multicultural team in order to meet and exceed individual and business goals and client expectations, and to meet the Firm’s obligation to provide the broadest possible range of opportunities to the members of the communities served by the Firm.

Troutman Sanders defines diversity as an environment of inclusion, in which race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability, background and social and ethnic group differences are accepted and valued, and all members of the Firm can contribute to their fullest potential to achieve the Firm’s business goals.

Troutman Sanders supports many initiatives that foster an inclusive environment and help all its personnel balance commitments to clients and family:

Domestic Partnership Benefits

Troutman Sanders offers domestic partnership insurance benefits and has a longstanding policy against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

Women’s Forum

The Troutman Sanders Women’s Forum is a framework to increase the visibility of our women lawyers and their accomplishments, provide expanded professional and business development opportunities, and provide a supportive environment for the continued recruitment, promotion and retention of women lawyers firm-wide.

Moms' Group

The Moms' Group at Troutman Sanders includes both full and part-time women lawyers with children of all ages and provides the opportunity to discuss issues of common concern among a support network such as part-time employment options with the firm and child-care providers.

Charitable Giving

The firm allocates a significant amount of its annual charitable, diversity, and civic contributions budget toward nonprofit organizations and bar associations with a diverse constituency or whose mission directly influences the issue of diversity.  These organizations include the Latin American Association, National Association of Chinese Americans, Stonewall Bar Association , Georgia Hispanic Chamber,  National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA), National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL), Equality Virginia,  Stakeholders, Inc., Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF), YWCA, HRNEW, The Urban League, and Catalyst, Inc.

Recruiting

Troutman Sanders proactively recruits a diverse team of lawyers by visiting law school campuses and participating in minority job fairs, including the Lavender Law Job Fair, Southeast Minority Job Fair, Mid-Atlantic BLSA Minority Job Fair and Virginia Bar Association Minority Job Fair.  The firm also sponsors a variety of associations that connect minority law students to internships and job opportunities in the legal industry. 

Ongoing efforts to promote and foster an inclusive environment are lead by the Troutman Sanders Diversity Committee. Its primary goals are to implement the firm’s philosophy on diversity, ensure a welcoming workplace for all personnel, and make an impact on the community through charitable giving and pro bono service.

Members of the Diversity Committee are:

Sallie A. Daniel, Chief Diversity Officer
Ronald R. Ross, Chairperson **
Pamela S. Belleman ** 
Robert L. Bourguignon **
Julie L. Burgener **
Albert C. Hwang **
Molly F. James **
Jennifer Mathis **
Joseph M. Parker **
John M. Ramirez **
E. Fitzgerald Veira **
Sonia K. Bain
Sandra L. Brown
Michael D. Hobbs, Jr.
Roscoe C. Howard, Jr.
Prashant K. Khetan
M. Kevin McCusty
George L. Scruggs
Rebecca W. Shanlever
Wendelin W. Silliman
Anthony F. Troy
Jerome Walker
Farah S. Ahmed * 
Meredith N. Baron *
George G. Booker *
Alonso J. Cisneros *
Tameka M. Collier *
Sara H. Doran *
Kaleen Serena Ford *
Becki F. Kieffer *
Adam S. Libove *
Christina M. Lucio *
Nora Garcia Nickel *
Tashwanda C. Pinchback *
S. Kaveh E. Rashidi-Yazd *
Jimmy R. Rock *
Tania S. Sebastian *
Ashante Latanya Smith *
Matt J. Sperling *
Juliet G. Sy * 
Whitney S. Waldenberg *

* Elected by Associates
** Office Committee Chair