Hogan Lovells 2024 Election Impact and Congressional Outlook Report
Henry (Hank) M. Watsky
Counsel Intellectual Property
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Overview
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Experience
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Credentials
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Insights and events
Hank Watsky works closely with businesses to help them monetize and protect their most valuable intellectual property and technology in a commercial context.
Hank advises clients on a variety of tech-heavy commercial arrangements and IP transactions in industries such as telecommunications, cloud computing, life sciences, media, and manufacturing. He has significant experience drafting and negotiating contracts covering all stages of the supply chain as well as complex licensing, distribution, and development agreements. He also advises clients on the intellectual property aspects of joint ventures, strategic alliances, and M&A transactions.
Prior to joining Hogan Lovells, Hank served as a member of the Virginia Law & Business Review while attending the University of Virginia.
Representative experience
Representing Incyte Corp. in its license and collaboration agreement with MacroGenics relating to an anti-PD-1 antibody.
Advising a private equity fund in its acquisition of multiple synthetic royalty streams.
Advising Kite, a Gilead company, on aspects of an up to US$3bn deal to access Sangamo Therapeutics' zinc finger nuclease technology.
Ongoing representation of Charter Communications in connection with a variety of commercial agreements.
Ongoing representation of the College Football Playoff in connection with various commercial agreements.
Advising Allergan on aspects of its US$40.5bn generics divestiture to Teva Pharmaceuticals.
Representing Daiichi Sankyo in its collaboration with AstraZeneca to develop and commercialize Daiichi Sankyo's antibody drug conjugate (ADC) DS-1062, a potential treatment for multiple tumor types.
Representing BMS on its in-license from Rockefeller University of monoclonal antibodies for the treatment of COVID-19.
Representing Gilead Sciences in its collaboration with Yuhan Corporation to co-develop novel therapeutics for patients with advanced fibrosis due to NASH.
Representing IBM on aspects of its acquisition of Manta Software, Inc., a global provider of data lineage services that allow enterprises to better understand their data and its origin sources.
Credentials
Education
- J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, 2015
- B.S., James Madison University, 2011
Bar admissions and qualifications
- Virginia
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04 January 2024
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23 October 2023