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Amy Baker Mandragouras Named Managing Partner in Boston
BOSTON (Jan. 21, 2011) -- Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP has named Amy Baker Mandragouras, an intellectual property lawyer with a focus on the biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and life sciences industries, managing partner of its Boston office.
In appointing Ms. Mandragouras, the law firm takes a leading position in Boston’s biotechnology, life sciences, and pharmaceuticals area of law, where intellectual property issues carry particular current challenges in the U.S. and abroad. With more than 20 years in that discipline, she has developed long-term relationships with executives and scientists in the industries’ major companies and incubator businesses alike.
Her appointment as managing partner follows the recent combination of Nelson Mullins with Boston-based Lahive & Cockfield, a firm where Ms. Mandragouras was chair of the executive committee.
“Intellectual property and patent issues are extremely critical to our biotechnology, life sciences, and pharmaceuticals clients – both the large, established clients and the start ups - as they search for, or take advantage of, strategic-alliance or acquisition opportunities in the United States and around the world,’’ Ms. Mandragouras said. “It is essential for those clients to be confident that they have premier legal resources around the world, especially when they are confronting such diverse issues as IP theft, counterfeiting, patent due diligence, and patent protection.’’
Ms. Mandragouras’ experience includes strategic counseling in the biotechnology and pharmaceuticals industries, and she advises clients in the development and implementation of intellectual-property strategies, through all phases -- from start-up through maturity, through financing, and in the formation of strategic alliances.
She earned her Juris Doctor from Northeastern University School of Law in 1992. In 1988, Ms. Mandragouras earned her Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Bates College.
With the addition of 23 attorneys and patent professionals from Lahive, the Boston office of Nelson Mullins now has 39 attorneys and technical specialists. The office provides a wide range of legal services, including antitrust competition, bankruptcy and creditor’s rights, corporate investigations, employment and labor, litigation, mergers and acquisitions, The Boston office also includes members of our Public Strategy Group, which provides government relations consulting and lobbying.
Established in 1897, Nelson Mullins has more than 400 attorneys and government relations professionals practicing from 12 office locations in the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, North Carolina, South Carolina, and West Virginia. For more information on the Firm, go to www.nelsonmullins.com, or call 803.255.9794.
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