Richard Kaufman is a retired partner and corporate lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP. His practice included structuring and negotiation of strategic partnerships and collaborations, technology transfers and licenses, spin-out transactions, manufacturing agreements and clinical research agreements, as well as engagements for financings, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures.

Formerly, Richard was co-chair of the Life Sciences Industry Team, managing partner of the San Diego office, vice chair of the firm’s Private Equity & Venture Capital Practice and a member of the Transactional & Securities and Chemical, Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical Practices.

Richard has significant experience with a wide variety of corporate and securities transactions for companies in the life sciences industry, including developers of drugs, biologics, medical devices and discovery and informatics tools.

For 14 years, he served as general counsel of public life sciences companies engaged in the development and manufacture of proteins, peptides, small molecules and medical devices, as well as predictive in silico drug discovery tools.

Richard was a partner with Heller Ehrman LLP before joining Foley in 2008. Prior to joining Heller Ehrman, Richard’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. Prior to moving in-house, Richard was a partner at Peper, Martin, Jensen, Maichel and Hetlage in St. Louis, Missouri, where he practiced for nine years. Previously, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Robert E. Seiler, Chief Justice of the Missouri Supreme Court.