Michael J. Lerner is a member of the Lowenstein Sandler Corporate Department and Tech Group. Mr. Lerner has over twenty years of experience providing legal counsel to the pharmaceutical, life science and healthcare industries with significant expertise in product acquisitions and divestitures, technology licensing, pharmaceutical sales and marketing practices, mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property, corporate compliance, employment law and regulatory matters affecting the pharmaceutical industry. Mr. Lerner currently has a stable of life sciences and healthcare clients ranging from investors to public companies and venture-backed private companies, as well as founders/management teams.
Prior to joining Lowenstein Sandler, Mr. Lerner served for six years as General Counsel at Reliant Pharmaceuticals, Inc., one of the nation's largest privately held pharmaceutical companies. Prior to joining Reliant, he was outside counsel to the two founders of the company and became one of the initial employees following the closing of the company's Series B Round in August, 2000. During his tenure as part of Reliant's senior management, the Company grew to over 1,000 employees. While Mr. Lerner's responsibilities at Reliant included legal affairs, human resources, and corporate compliance, he spent much time acquiring and divesting products and technologies. While at Reliant, Mr. Lerner was the lead inside lawyer on numerous pharmaceutical product acquisitions and dispositions totaling in excess of $650 million and he participated in raising equity and debt for Reliant in an amount exceeding $900 million.
Prior to joining Reliant, Mr. Lerner spent seventeen years at the law firm of Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione PC, for the last 5 years of which, he was the partner in charge of the pharmaceutical and life sciences practice, where he represented start-ups, specialty and large pharmaceutical and other healthcare related companies in a variety of corporate, partnering and licensing matters.
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