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Katya Ascher

Katya Ascher advises her clients on the structuring and negotiation of strategic agreements, including collaboration, licensing, option, and technology acquisition deals, with a particular expertise in the life sciences sector. She assists companies in negotiating research and development agreements (including clinical development), manufacturing, service and supply, marketing, and distribution agreements. Katya regularly draws on her technical training in biology to better understand the innovations driving the deals, enabling her to provide more informed and effective counsel to her clients. · HBC Avocats

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About

Katya Ascher advises clients on structuring and negotiating strategic agreements — including collaboration, licensing, option and technology acquisition deals — with particular expertise in the life sciences sector. She assists companies on R&D (including clinical development), manufacturing, service and supply, marketing and distribution agreements, and draws on a technical background in biology to inform her counsel.

Practice areas

Life SciencesTechnology TransactionsIntellectual PropertyLicensingCommercial ContractsResearch & Development Agreements

Office

Expertise

Life SciencesBiotechnologyPharmaceuticalsClinical DevelopmentManufacturing & Supply AgreementsNon-profit Research Institutions

Education

  • Master’s Degree (Master 2), Industrial Property, University Paris-Panthéon-Assas (2012)
  • Juris Doctor (Law), University of North Carolina, United States (2005)
  • Bachelor of Arts in Biology, University of North Carolina, United States (2002)

Admissions

  • Member of the New York Bar (since 2007)
  • Paris Bar (since 2018)
  • Solicitor in England and Wales (since 2016) — non-practicing

Languages

EnglishFrenchRussian