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Randall B Sunberg

Randall B Sunberg

USA 2026

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Practice Areas

Randall Sunberg is a partner in the Transactions Practice Group and the Life Sciences Industry Group. He serves as Chair of the North America Healthcare & Life Sciences Group. Randy structures and negotiates complex collaborations, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and corporate partnering and licensing transactions, as well as equity investments and royalty monetization transactions for clients ranging from biotech startups to multinational pharmaceutical companies.

Practice Focus

In addition to pharma, biotech, medical device, diagnostics, and technology companies, Randy advises private equity, venture capital, and investment banking firms. Randy counsels on alternative financing arrangements such as royalty monetizations. He also handles technical contractual arrangements for drug discovery, development, manufacturing and supply, marketing and co-promotion, and outsourcing in the life sciences industry.

Additionally, he advises boards of directors and significant shareholders on disclosure issues, corporate communications policies, and fiduciary duty matters. He serves clients throughout Europe and Asia, and across the United States.

Randy's wealth of global life sciences experience draws many invitations to speak at industry events worldwide. He has spoken on such topics as mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances, and licensing and collaboration transactions in the United States at Allicense, BIO and LES annual meetings; in Canada at BIOMedex; and in China at BIO Forum; as well as at other life sciences–related conferences. He has also been a guest lecturer at the Rutgers Business School MBA Biotechnology Commercialization Concentration.

Professional Memberships

American Bar Association - Member, Business Law Section

Publications

Executive Council & the New York Venture Capital Association Health & Technology Summit 2018

JPMorgan’s 34th Annual Healthcare Conference in San Francisco

Allicense 2010: Redefining the Threshold of Innovation Conference

Education

New York University School of Law

JD

1982

Yale University

BA

1977

Chambers Review

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Chambers Guide to the USA

Life Sciences - New Jersey

Band 1
Band 1

Individual Editorial

Randall Sunberg has a strong reputation for elite life sciences counseling. He is called upon by international clients to advise on cross-border transactional and licensing work.

Corporate/M&A - New Jersey

Band 2
Band 2

Individual Editorial
Randall Sunberg of Baker McKenzie is experienced in counseling clients on a range of corporate and securities matters, and is praised in particular for his work in the life sciences space.

Life Sciences: Corporate/Commercial - USA - Nationwide

Band 3
Band 3

Individual Editorial

Randall Sunberg is the chair of the North American healthcare and life sciences group. He advises an array of clients in the life sciences sector, including venture capital and private equity firms, as well as biotech, pharmaceuticals, diagnostic and medical device companies. He is highly recommended for corporate, financing and partnering transactions.

Strengths

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  • Randy is an exceptional licensing attorney. He is great in face-to-face negotiations and very thorough with how he reviews contracts.

    Life SciencesChambers Guide to the USA
  • Randy is one of the top lawyers in the pharma space. He is always sharp as a tack on the law and savvy on the business side.

    Life SciencesChambers Guide to the USA
  • He's incredibly well-respected and one-of-a-kind.

    Corporate/M&AChambers Guide to the USA
  • Randy is an exceptional licensing attorney. He is great in face to face negotiations.

    Life Sciences: Corporate/CommercialChambers Guide to the USA

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