Partner, Ropes & Gray
Practice
Steve Wilcox focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, corporate financing transactions (including public offerings and venture capital investments) and licensing and collaborations. Most of his clients are engaged in the biotech, medical device and pharmaceutical industries. In addition to transactional work, he regularly counsels companies on a range of federal securities and corporate governance matters.
Steve is a founder and former chair of the firm’s life sciences practice group.
Representative Clients and Matters
Steve has been counsel to some of the world’s leading companies including Amgen, AstraZeneca, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Fresenius, Johnson & Johnson, Medtronic, Millennium, Pfizer, Schering Plough, Smith & Nephew and Takeda Pharmaceuticals. Steve has also represented medical research institutions such as Cleveland Clinic, The Massachusetts General Hospital and Rockefeller University in connection with the spin-off or commercialization of their promising technologies. Steve has represented a number of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in the life sciences industry, and the companies they have created, including AgeneBio, Alzheon, Blossom Innovations, Eléme Medical, InfoBionic, Normoxys, Percardia, pHLIP, Inc., Point Therapeutics, Salient Surgical, Vapotherm and Verax Biomedical.