Suzanne Filippi

Suzanne’s ability to deeply understand a company’s strategic objectives enables her to develop targeted legal solutions that serve her clients’ ambitious business goals. Beyond her robust life sciences practice, she regularly advises on general corporate matters, such as US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) compliance, corporate governance, financing, and a range of other everyday legal issues. Suzanne has a command of the complex issues facing companies in critical transition periods—including going public, evolving from a clinical to commercial stage company, M&A integrations and exits, carve-outs, entering new territories, and resolving financial or regulatory challenges. In addition, Suzanne is the former leader of the corporate and business transactions practice in the Boston office.

Life Sciences

• Takeda Pharmaceutical Company in its research collaboration agreement with Artisan Bio for the development, manufacturing, and commercialization of cell therapy products
• Takeda Pharmaceutical Company in its collaboration agreement valued up to $2 billion with Code Biotherapeutics, to design and develop gene therapies for rare disease indications
• Takeda Pharmaceutical Company in its cross-border, multi-asset externalization transaction with Oak Hill Bio under which Takeda will receive an upfront payment, an ownership stake in Oak Hill Bio and potential milestones and royalty payments in exchange for six acquired and licensed programs
• Agios Pharmaceuticals Inc., a Boston based public biopharmaceutical company, in its sale and license of certain IP assets to a multibillion, international pharmaceutical company
• Bristol Myers Squibb in its license, development and commercialization agreement valued up to $920 with Immatics N.V. for Immatics’ T cell-redirecting cancer immunotherapy candidate, IMA401
• Takeda Pharmaceutical Company in its agreement with Moderna and the Government of Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare to import and distribute an additional 50 million doses of Moderna’s mRNA COVID-19 vaccine in Japan 
• Zai Lab in its agreement with Cullinan Oncology, valued up to $231 million, for the development, manufacturing and commercialization of CLN-081, an immuno-oncology therapy, in Greater China
• A global pharmaceutical company in its strategic agreement valued up to approximately $3.1 billion with a Japanese biotech for the co-development and co-commercialization of an antibody drug conjugate to treat advanced solid tumors
• A global pharmaceutical company in its agreement with a leading academic institution in Massachusetts for the treatment of inherited retinal degeneration
• Cyclerion Therapeutics Inc. in an agreement valued up to $585 million with Akebia Therapeutics Inc. for the development and commercialization of praliciguat, an oral soluble guanylate cyclase 
• UniQure, a gene therapy company, in its acquisition valued up to $297 million of Corlieve Therapeutics 
• Antares Pharma in its licensing agreement valued at more than $200 million with Lipocine to commercialize TLANDO, an oral testosterone product for testosterone replacement therapy
• Takeda Pharmaceutical Company in connection with a confidential asset purchase transaction
• Viatris, a global pharmaceutical company, in the spinoff and integration through the UpJohn/Mylan merger
• Lesaffre, a French healthcare and life sciences company, in its strategic collaboration with Recombia to advance innovative gene editing technology
• Alere (f/k/a Inverness), a global manufacturer of rapid point-of-care diagnostic tests, in its $1.7 billion hostile tender offer and acquisition of medical diagnostic company Biosite
• Avant Immunotherapeutics in its reverse merger with Celldex Therapeutics to create a fully-integrated and diversified biopharmaceutical company with product candidates addressing oncology and infectious and inflammatory diseases
• A $50 Billion, multinational biotechnology company in connection with multiple licensing and collaboration transactions

General M&A Transactions

• Diageo, one of the world's largest producers of spirits and beers, in various M&A, joint venture, and venture capital transactions
• Goldman Sachs as exclusive financial advisor in numerous IPOs, spinoffs, going-privates, and other M&A transactions 
• Merrill Lynch & Co. as exclusive financial advisor to Equity Office Properties Trust, a real estate investment company, in its going-private acquisition by The Blackstone Group for $39 billion
• Cingular, a wireless telecommunications company, in its $41 billion acquisition of AT&T Wireless, creating the largest US wireless carrier
• Telewest Global, a cable internet, broadband internet, telephone supplier and cable television provider in the United Kingdom, in its $11 billion cross-border merger with NTL Incorporated
• IMCO Recycling, an aluminum recycling company, in its $2 billion merger creating Aleris International