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University of Wisconsin (B.A., Anthropology, 1972); Washington University School of Law (J.D., 1976); Special Projects Editor, Washington University Law Quarterly. Mr. Kaufman was a clerk for the Honorable Robert E. Seiler, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Missouri.
California; Missouri.
American Bar Association; State Bar of California.
Richard A. Kaufman joined the firm in 2001. He is a member of the Intellectual Property Transactions Practice Group and the Life Sciences Practice.
Mr. Kaufman’s practice focuses on a wide variety of transactions for companies in the life sciences industry, including developers of drugs, biologics, medical devices, and discovery and informatics tools. His practice extends to the United States, Europe, Japan and India, and includes structuring and negotiation of strategic partnerships and collaborations, technology transfers and licenses, spin-out transactions, manufacturing agreements, and clinical research agreements; he has handled hundreds of such matters. In addition, Mr. Kaufman’s practice includes engagements for public offerings, private placements, mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures.
Mr. Kaufman has represented clients in, among other matters, dozens of strategic partnership, licensing and collaboration negotiations with companies including Novartis, Hoffmann-La Roche, Amgen, Genentech, AstraZeneca, Wyeth, Johnson & Johnson, Eli Lilly, Chiron, Biogen, Genzyme, Baxter, SmithKline, Warner-Lambert, G.D. Searle, Ciba-Geigy, Chugai, Astellas, Ono and others. He has been responsible for the negotiation of well over 100 manufacturing and development agreements for biologics, drugs and medical devices, and for the negotiation of hundreds of clinical trial agreements, agreements with clinical research organizations and other clinical development service providers.
Prior to joining Heller Ehrman, for more than 14 years he served as a top in-house attorney for life science companies engaged in the development and manufacture of proteins, peptides, antibodies, small molecules and medical devices, as well as predictive in silico drug discovery tools. Mr. Kaufman’s in-house positions included General Counsel to Trega Biosciences, Inc.; Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Law at Integra LifeSciences Corporation; Vice President, Secretary, and General Counsel at Telios Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; and Executive Vice President, Secretary, and General Counsel at Invitron Corporation, a spin-off of Monsanto Company. Mr. Kaufman is listed in the Best Lawyers in America in Biotechnology Law.University of Wisconsin (B.A., Anthropology, 1972); Washington University School of Law (J.D., 1976); Special Projects Editor, Washington University Law Quarterly. Mr. Kaufman was a clerk for the Honorable Robert E. Seiler, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Missouri.
California; Missouri.
American Bar Association; State Bar of California.