Stephen Abreu

Practice Areas

STEPHEN ABREU focuses on structuring and negotiating complex intellectual property and commercial transactions for life sciences companies, including strategic collaborations, cross-border transactions, and co-development, license and manufacturing agreements. Stephen leverages both his graduate training as a molecular biologist and his prior experience leading monoclonal antibody research and development programs for biopharma companies in advising his clients on their transactional and business matters. Stephen brings a creative and thoughtful approach to addressing the needs of his clients.

Stephen has extensive knowledge in university transactions gained while working for the University of California, San Francisco as the Industry Contracts Manager for the Diabetes Center and the Immune Tolerance Network. In that capacity, Stephen was responsible for managing all industry relations between these departments and companies operating in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical and digital health space.

Stephen was selected to appear in Latino Leaders magazine in 2020 on the “Top Latino Lawyers to Keep on Watch” list. Also in 2020, Stephen was named a “Rising Star” by LMG Life Sciences in the Financial & Corporate category. In 2016, the Silicon Valley Business Journal named him in its annual “40 under 40” list and in 2015, he was selected as a member of the National Black Lawyers – Top 100 Lawyers. He has also served as an adjunct professor at the University of California, Davis Martin Luther King Jr. School of Law.