Steven Barrett

Steve Barrett, co-chair of the Technology Transactions and Licensing Practice Group, advises a variety of life sciences and technology companies regarding the structuring, negotiation and drafting of agreements for a broad range of technology transactions, including technology acquisition, license, strategic alliance and joint venture transactions, and related research, development, supply, marketing, distribution and services agreements. Mr. Barrett regularly represents entrepreneurs, early-stage and established life sciences and technology companies and large commercial enterprises.

Mr. Barrett serves on the board of directors of The Political Asylum/Immigration Representation (PAIR) Project. Mr. Barrett has also successfully represented, on a pro bono basis, a number of persons who have fled persecution in other countries and sought political asylum in the United States.

Mr. Barrett served on active duty as a US naval officer from 1989 to 1992. His assignments included division officer tours in USS Hoel (DDG-13) and USS Waddell (DDG-24), and he qualified as a surface warfare officer and was awarded the Navy Achievement Medal.

Admissions:

Massachusetts

Michigan

US Patent and Trademark Office

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Mr. Barrett has represented:

Adimab in its antibody platform licensing agreements with GSK (2013), Biogen Idec (2013), Novo Nordisk (2013) and Merck (2015)

Agios Pharmaceuticals in its IDHIFA® royalty and milestone sale transaction with Royalty Pharma (2020)

Agios Pharmaceuticals in its Chinese territory collaboration and license agreement for Ivosidenib with CStone Pharmaceuticals (2018)

Agios Pharmaceuticals in its metabolic immuno-oncology collaborations with Celgene (2010 and 2016)

Apellis Pharmaceuticals in its complement-driven disease collaboration with Beam Therapeutics (2021)

Apellis Pharmaceuticals in its systemic pegcetacoplan collaboration with Sobi (2020)

Apellis Pharmaceuticals in its pegcetacoplan hematologic indication collaboration with SFJ Pharmaceuticals (2019)

Beam Therapeutics in its multi-target research collaboration for base editing programs for rare diseases with Pfizer (2022)

Carisma Therapeutics in its strategic collaboration agreement for in vivo engineered chimeric antigen receptor monocyte (CAR-M) cancer therapeutics with Moderna (2022)

Cybrexa Therapeutics in its collaboration and program acquisition option agreements for Cybrexa’s CBX-12 peptide-drug conjugate with Exelixis (2022)

D.E. Shaw Research in its exclusive license agreement for DES-7114 with Lilly (2022)

Editas Medicine in its amended collaboration for gene-edited autologous and allogeneic alpha-beta T cell medicines for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases with Celgene (2019)

Editas Medicine in its gene editing and cell therapy platform collaboration with BlueRock Therapeutics (2019)

Editas Medicine in its licensing agreement for base editing technology with Beam Therapeutics (2018)

Editas Medicine in its strategic alliance and option agreement with Allergan (2017)

Editas Medicine in its licensing of CRISPR technologies from the Broad Institute, MIT, Harvard and other academic institutions (2016)

Epizyme in its Tazverik royalty sale transaction with Royalty Pharma (2019)

Epizyme in its combination clinical trial collaboration with Genentech (2016)

ImaginAb in its divestiture of its radiopharmaceutical therapy business to Telix Pharmaceuticals (2025)

Incyte in its worldwide collaboration and licensing agreement for axatilimab with Syndax Pharmaceuticals (2021)

Iveric Bio in its >$1 billion ex-US licensing and commercialization agreement for FOVISTA™ with Novartis (2014)

Lexicon in its worldwide collaboration and licensing agreement for sotagliflozin with Sanofi (2015)

Lexicon in its ex-US and Japan licensing agreement for telotristat etiprate with Ipsen (2014)

MacroGenics in its anti-PD-1 monoclonal antibody collaboration with Incyte (2017)

Mediar Therapeutics in its worldwide licensing agreement for Mediar’s MTX-463 antibody with Eli Lilly (2025)

Mersana Therapeutics in its worldwide collaboration, option and license agreement for XMT-2056 with GlaxoSmithKline (2022)

Novo Nordisk in its cardiometabolic and rare disease collaboration with Flagship Pioneering (2022)

Novo Nordisk in its RNAi therapy collaboration for liver-related cardio-metabolic diseases with Dicerna Pharmaceuticals (2019)

Ocular Therapeutix in its Asian territory collaboration and license agreement for DEXTENZA and OTX-TIC with AffaMed (2020)

PTC Therapeutics in its Risdiplam royalty monetization agreement with Royalty Pharma (2020)

Repare Therapeutics in its worldwide license and collaboration agreement for Camonsertib (RP-3500) with Roche (2022)

Repare Therapeutics in its synthetic lethal oncology target discovery collaboration with Bristol-Myers Squibb (2020)

Ribometrix in its RNA-targeted small molecule therapeutic discovery and development collaboration with Genentech (2020)

Ribometrix in its RNA-targeted small molecule therapeutic discovery and development collaboration with Vertex Pharmaceuticals (2019)

Ribon Therapeutics in its Asian territory collaboration and license agreement for RBN-2397 with Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (2021)

Spark Therapeutics in its ex-US licensing and commercialization agreement for LUXTURNA™ with Novartis (2018)

Vividion Therapeutics in its small molecule ubiquitin proteome collaboration with Celgene (2018)

vTv Therapeutics in its licensing agreements with Reneo Pharmaceuticals (2017), Newsoara Biopharma Co. (2018) and Anteris (2020)

University of Michigan Law School

JD

1996

University of Michigan

MBA

1996

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

SB

1989