Marya Postner

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Marya Postner is head of Cooley's life sciences partnering practice. Marya represents public and private life sciences companies in a variety of complex transactions including collaborations, license agreements, options to license or purchase, territory-specific licenses, joint venture and other profit-sharing arrangements, co-promotion relationships, and manufacture and supply agreements. She counsels clients with respect to the structuring and negotiation of agreements designed to maximize the value of the company's products and technology assets. She has particular expertise handling strategic alliances between biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies in areas as diverse as collaborative research and the development and marketing of late-stage pharmaceutical products.

Marya has a PhD in Molecular Biology from Princeton University and she previously practiced in the firm's patent counseling & prosecution group. She combines her resulting knowledge of scientific and intellectual property matters with a deep understanding of the life sciences industry to help her clients devise creative solutions to issues that arise during the negotiation or implementation of their most important collaborative relationships.