Holland & Knight Expands National Biotech Practice with Addition of Prominent Life Sciences Lawyer Larry S. Millstein
March 12, 2007
Larry Millstein - Northern Virginia
Robin Marie Taylor - Northern Virginia
Name partners of Millstein & Taylor, P.C. join Holland & Knight.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Holland & Knight's national Intellectual Property Group adds a prominent biotech patent lawyer to its practice through the acquisition of the Washington, D.C.-based law firm Millstein & Taylor, P.C. Name partner and noted life sciences attorney
Larry
S. Millstein, Ph.D. joins the firm's Washington, D.C., office as partner.
Also joining Holland & Knight is name partner and transactional lawyer Robin
Taylor, who will practice in the firm''s Northern Virginia office in the Mergers
& Acquisitions Group.
Millstein's arrival is the latest in a series of strategic lateral additions by the firm's IP group, which added eight lawyers to its practice within the last year. Millstein holds a Ph.D. in molecular biology and chemistry, and has extensive experience in technically complex matters,
particularly relating to molecular biology, bio-research instrumentation,
genomics, expression profiling, proteomics, array technologies, HTS
technologies, bioinformatics, drug discovery, biomarkers, pharmaceutical agents
and formulations, transgenics, bioMEMS, certain aspects of nanotechnology, and
single molecule technology. His practice focuses on technology and intellectual
property portfolio development and strategy, including technology assessment,
forecasting and counseling; patentability assessment; patent preparation,
prosecution and acquisition; IP licensing, due diligence, and litigation
counseling.
"Larry is widely respected in the legal and biotech communities, and has impressive technical and litigation expertise," said
Josh Krumholz, the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group leader. "He will play
a major role in accelerating the expansion of our biotech practice, which is a
key growth area for the firm."
Millstein is a registered U.S. Patent Attorney and is a member of the Bars of the District of Columbia, the C.A.F.C. and the U.S. Supreme Court. He also is an adjunct professor in the Department of Biochemistry Molecular and Cellular Biology at Georgetown University, and he is
chairman of the Board of Directors of the Georgetown
University Program in Entrepreneurial Biotechnology.
Before founding Millstein & Taylor, Millstein was senior patent counsel at Human Genome Sciences. Before taking up the practice of law, Millstein was a scientist for more than 10 years and carried out research in biology at the at the Smithsonian Institution and in chemistry and molecular biology at UC-San Diego, the Scripps Research Institute, and the University of
Rochester. In addition to his academic publications, Millstein is an inventor on
several patent applications on micro-arrays and on polynucleotide amplification
methods.
Millstein holds a B.S. in chemistry from SUNY-CCNY, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in chemistry and molecular biology from the University of California-San Diego. He earned his J.D. from George Mason University School of Law and is a graduate of the school''s Patent Law Specialty Track Program.
Robin Taylor, co-founder of Millstein Taylor, is a highly regarded business lawyer and certified public accountant with more than 20 years of experience in matters relating to business transactions, taxation, regulatory compliance, intellectual property law, and employment law.
Taylor''s practice includes counseling technology companies, especially early and mid-stage companies, as well as advising on complex commercial transactions, business entities and operational structures, mergers and reorganizations, and debt and equity financing. She has significant experience in joint ventures, licenses, sales partnering arrangements, and
mergers and acquisitions. In addition, Taylor has negotiated large and complex
transactions; handled financing, leasing and purchasing of investment real
estate; and counseled clients on employment law, including ERISA compliance. She
also has experience setting up technology incubators and other technology
development-based, IP-oriented enterprises.
Taylor earned her B.S.B.A. from the University of North
Carolina and received her J.D. with honors from the University of North Carolina
Law School in 1986. She is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a Master of
Laws in Taxation degree from Georgetown University School of Law.
Contact: Christina Calhoun (813) 769-4355