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Sarah C. Waste

Associate

Sarah C. Waste

Associate

Sarah Waste is an associate in the firm’s Chicago office and a member of the Intellectual Property Department, and Technology Transactions, Cybersecurity, and Privacy practice group.

Sarah focuses her practice on advising life science and technology companies on a variety of matters including, the licensing and commercialization of intellectual property and technology assets and intellectual property due diligence for M&A transactions and venture capital financings. Prior to joining Foley Sarah worked at international law firms in Southern California where she advised life science and technology companies on similar technology transaction matters and advised medical device companies on patent strategy, patentability, and patent infringement.

 

September 30, 2025 Deals and Wins

Foley Represents Prellis Biologics in Strategic Collaboration with Eli Lilly to Advance Human Antibody Therapeutics

Foley & Lardner LLP served as legal counsel to Prellis Biologics, Inc., a biotechnology company innovating human antibody discovery through organoid and artificial intelligence enabled technology, in its multi-target drug discovery and development collaboration with Eli Lilly and Company.
September 25, 2025 Deals and Wins

Foley Represents Riverwood Capital as Lead Investor in $180M Funding for AppZen

Foley & Lardner LLP represented Riverwood Capital as lead investor in the $180 million growth funding round for AppZen, the leading agentic AI platform for finance teams.
September 19, 2025 Deals and Wins

Foley Represents Unico in Acquisition of OwnID

Foley & Lardner LLP represented Unico, Brazil’s leading IDtech company, in the acquisition of OwnID, a U.S.-based startup specializing in passwordless and passkey authentication.
September 2, 2025 Deals and Wins

Foley Represents Kapital in Funding Round, Creating Mexico’s Newest Fintech Unicorn

Foley & Lardner LLP recently represented Mexican commercial fintech firm Kapital in its funding round led by Tribe Capital and Pelion Ventures. Additional investors included Cervin Ventures, YC, Marbruck Ventures, and True Arrow. With this latest funding, Kapital has achieved "unicorn" status as its valuation topped $1.3 billion.
August 26, 2025 Deals and Wins

Foley Represents OpenLight in $34M Series A Financing

Foley & Lardner LLP represented OpenLight, a world leader in custom Photonic Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (PASIC) chip design and manufacturing based on heterogenous integration, in their oversubscribed $34 million Series A financing.
August 15, 2025 Deals and Wins

Foley Represents xmad.ai in Sale to Workato

Foley & Lardner LLP represented xmad.ai, a frontier AI-research company, in its sale to Workato, the leader in agentic orchestration.