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DLA Piper US LLP

Bruce W. Jenett is a partner of, and Co-Chair of the Global Life Sciences Sector of, DLA Piper US LLP, resident in the firm's East Palo Alto, California office. Mr. Jenett's practice is focused on the representation of U.S. and international business and finance clients in the life sciences industry. He is highly experienced in equity and debt financing, licensing and distribution, strategic alliances, joint ventures, and mergers and acquisitions, as well as general counseling issues, representing both start-ups and large multinational corporations. Mr. Jenett has, for example, represented clients in one of the largest (in financial terms) ag-bio partnering deals in history, and one of the largest (also in financial terms) partnering deals done by an Irish venture capital-backed biotechnology company with a major pharmaceutical company.

Mr. Jenett is a frequent speaker on corporate and finance issues to both business and attorney audiences. He is a member of the Bioethics Committee of BIO (the Biotechnology Industry Organization), and of the Board of Directors of BayBio, and is a member of, and is Co-Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee of, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's Biotech Advisory Council.

Mr. Jenett also is named consistently as one of the leading business lawyers in the United States by Chambers & Partners, and as a leading biotechnology industry lawyer in “Best Lawyers In America” for 2007 and 2008, and is on the Law & Politics “Super Lawyers” list for Northern California for corporate and securities law for 2007 and 2008.

Mr. Jenett is a graduate of Princeton University, and holds a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. He is a member of State Bar of California and of the State Bar of New York.