Foley Hoag LLP

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Practical Law Company has ranked Foley Hoag LLP as one of the top law firms for venture capital in Boston in its 2012 PLC Venture Capital multi-jurisdictional guide.

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Foley Hoag LLP congratulates its client Blend Therapeutics on its successful launch.

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Foley Hoag LLP partner Hemmie Chang, chair of the firm’s Licensing and Strategic Alliances Practice Group, moderated a MassChallenge panel on corporate partnering in healthcare and life sciences on Aug. 31.

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Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business 2011 has ranked 26 Foley Hoag LLP lawyers across 12 practice categories, representing 28 percent of the firm’s partnership.

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Foley Hoag LLP client Genetic Technologies Limited has gained certification of its Australian laboratory under the U.S. Clinical Laboratories Improvements Amendments (CLIA), marking the end of preparations required for the Australian company’s U.S. launch of the BREVAGen™ breast cancer test.

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Partners and a senior health policy specialist from Foley Hoag LLP will discuss legal and regulatory issues affecting the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries at the 2011 BIO International Convention from June 27-30 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC.

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Foley Hoag LLP congratulates Dr. Ronald DePinho, director of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute’s Belfer Institute for Applied Cancer Science, for being named the sole finalist for the presidency of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

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Foley Hoag LLP represented Translational Therapeutics Inc. as it entered into a strategic licensing agreement with Clavis Pharma ASA of Norway regarding the development and commercialization of a thyroid cancer treatment.

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Foley Hoag partner Paul Sweeney was quoted in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly on a pilot program by LevelUp called "LevelUp Your Startup."

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Foley Hoag LLP has been named to Intellectual Asset Management magazine’s first IAM Patent Litigation 250 — The World’s Leading Patent Litigators list.

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The life sciences practice at Foley Hoag LLP opens 2011 with the arrival of noted life sciences lawyer Hemmie Chang, who joins the firm this week from Ropes & Gray.

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The law firm Foley Hoag LLP is pleased to announce that five lawyers will be promoted to the firm’s partnership effective January 1, 2011.  The group represents the firm’s strong foundation in corporate, litigation and intellectual property law.

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The law firm Foley Hoag LLP welcomes J. Kevin Brennan, most recently Chief of Staff to Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), to its Government Strategies practice as a Senior Health Policy Specialist.  Kevin will work with Foley Hoag’s team of lawyers, legislative and regulatory professionals serving health care, life sciences, and education clients.

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In a noteworthy expansion of its intellectual property practice, Foley Hoag LLP announced that Alan W. Steele, an accomplished patent attorney and former practicing physician, faculty member and medical researcher at Harvard Medical School with several patents to his name, has joined the Boston office as Counsel.  He was previously a patent attorney with Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C., of Boston.

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The law firm Foley Hoag LLP announced two strategic hires to its well-known Government Strategies practice, adding Connie Garner, Policy Director for the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) and Stacey Sachs, Health Committee Counsel from the Senate HELP Committee  Connie and Stacey have combined three decades of experience working in Congress and the Executive Branch on health care, education and disability policy and both served on the HELP Committee under two committee chairs, the late Senator Edward Kennedy and current Chairman Tom Harkin.

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Foley Hoag LLP congratulates its client Predictive Biosciences, Inc. on the closing of a $25 million Series C preferred stock financing.

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Foley Hoag lawyers and practice areas retain a number of top rankings in Chambers and Partners, a leading U.K.-based research and publishing company, has ranked Foley Hoag lawyers and practice areas in its 2010 guide.  A total of 26 lawyers are ranked in the following practice areas for Massachusetts:  Antitrust, Banking & Finance, Bankrupcty/Restructuring, Corporate/M&A, Environment, Health Care, Hedge & Mutual Funds, Intellectual Property, Labor & Employment, Litigation: General Commercial, Litigation: White Collar Crime & Government Investigations, Private Equity: Venture Capital Investment.  The International Arbitration practice is ranked nationally.

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Foley Hoag’s client Global Bio-Chem Technology (GBT) secured an important victory yesterday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in the patent litigation matter on appeal from the International Trade Commission (ITC).

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Foley Hoag congratulates Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc. for its recent transaction with Epocal, Inc., an Ottawa-based developer of diagnostic products. Epocal is commercializing a cost-effective blood analysis platform, epoc®, a point-of-care analysis system providing wireless bedside blood gas and electrolyte measurement testing solutions.  Inverness will promote the use of the epoc® platform through its global sales force for a five-year period.  The deal was announced on January 5, 2010.

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Foley Hoag LLP has launched an updated version of www.emergingenterprisecenter.com, its Web site designed to serve the Emerging Enterprise Center (EEC), the destination opened in Waltham in 2006.