Andrea LC Reid

Practice Areas

Andrea L.C. Reid, co-chair of Dechert's intellectual property practice, co-head of Dechert’s patent counseling and prosecution team, and co-lead of Dechert's global life sciences group, counsels established and start-up clients in all sectors of the biotech and pharmaceutical industries on developing IP strategies, patent portfolio management and transactions at all phases of the business cycle. Ms. Reid's ability to develop successful IP strategies for U.S. and European clients has resulted in more than US$30 billion in acquisition and investor/partner funding. With more than 35 years of experience working in the pharmaceutical industry, she has extensive experience in all areas of drug discovery through drug development. She draws on this experience when prosecuting patent applications and preparing patentability, validity and infringement opinions involving active pharmaceutical ingredients, manufacturing syntheses and formulations. She regularly represents clients on specialty issues relating to organic chemistry, small molecule pharmaceuticals and polymorph IP.

Prior to joining Dechert, Ms. Reid served as an IP partner at a Boston based law firm. Her previous experience also includes working as a patent agent at a global biotechnology company where she prepared and prosecuted small molecule patent applications for the Protein Kinase gene family and bacterial Gyrase programs. Ms. Reid also worked as a chemist for 14 years in which time she completed several natural product syntheses, worked as both a medicinal and process chemist, was an inventor on 14 United States Patents and co-author of numerous scientific publications.