Fahd Riaz

Partner

Managing Partner, Philadelphia office
Chair, Philadelphia Corporate practice

Emailfahd.riaz@us.dlapiper.com

Call+1 215 656 3316

Philadelphia

About

Fahd Riaz focuses his practice on corporate counseling and finance transactions, mergers and acquisitions, partnering, licensing and commercial transactions. His clients range from emerging growth companies to Fortune 50 companies, specifically in industrial, life and physical sciences and technology.

He has served as lead counsel for industrial, life science, and technology companies in a number of large industry transactions, in the United States, Europe, and Asia, including large collaborations and mergers and acquisitions (M&A). He uses his skillset, including his technical background as a molecular biologist and former technology industry experience in fulfilling the special business and legal needs of public and private companies as they seek to form joint ventures, partnerships, and other complex collaborations, acquire financing; and execute mergers, acquisitions and licensing transactions.

Related matters include negotiation and drafting of technical contractual arrangements related to the conducting and outsourcing of development, manufacturing and supply, distribution, marketing and promotion. He serves as outside general counsel for clients and advises boards of directors on disclosure issues, corporate communication policies and fiduciary duty matters.

Areas of FocusCorporate Emerging Growth and Venture Capital Finance Financial Services Healthcare Life Sciences Mergers and Acquisitions Private Equity Technology and Commercial Transactions Technology Life Sciences Transactions

Bar admissionsMassachusettsMichiganNew YorkPennsylvania

CourtsSupreme Court of the United States

EXPERIENCE

M&A Transactions

A large industrial company in its roll up various automotive glass companies
A large Japanese multinational in its sale and assignment of rights to develop and market certain products in all countries excluding Mexico
A privately held company in its sale of all of its assets for an upfront and contingent payments totaling more than US$500 million
A multinational company in its sale of its US subsidiary
A multinational company in its acquisition of chemical companies in the US
A company in its sale to private equity for over US$500 million
Sale of carbon recapture company to a multinational company
Indian-based company in its acquisition of an energy facility in the United States

Partnering (includes Licensing, Collaboration, Co-Development, and Commercialization)

US publicly traded company in a multinational license agreement with a Chinese company with a value of over US$1 billion in milestone and royalty payments
Ivy League university in its Research and Development, Collaboration, License and Option Agreement with a multinational company with a value of US$2 billion
Japanese pharmaceutical company in a license agreement with a German multinational company
US pharmaceutical company in its License and Asset Purchase Agreement with a Swiss multinational
US company in its licensing transaction with a Canadian company to commercialize its products in Canada
Japanese company in its US$320 million collaboration and development with US multinational company
Multinational company in its up to US$440 million Collaboration Agreement with a competitor for the development and commercialization of three products
US agriculture company in its development and commercialization of certain of its products in Europe by a French company providing EU€41million in upfront and milestone payments
US publicly traded company in its royalty monetization deals with another US publicly traded company

General Corporate

US publicly traded company in relation to its various research, development and manufacturing agreements
Global pharmaceutical corporation in connection with numerous clinical study agreements
US pharmaceutical corporation regarding high-volume clinical study agreements and drafting standard clinical trial documentation
US publicly traded company in its development of its multinational manufacturing supply chain, including negotiation of its manufacturing and supply agreements with Italian, Japanese, and US-based manufacturing companies
US publicly traded company in relation to its various research, development and manufacturing agreements
Ivy League university and various national and global companies in drafting and development of their corporate and commercial form agreements
Various companies in their corporate development process from formation through public offering and capital markets transactions

Awards

Education

J.D., Boston University School of Law

B.S., Biological Sciences, State University of New York

Seminars

Speaker, "Winning Strategies for Collaborating with Contract Research Organizations that Deliver Superior Results," ACI Conference Life Sciences Collaborative Agreements & Acquisitions, (2013)
Speaker, "Preparing your IP for M&A or Product License: What Savvy Buyers Look For," ACI Conference Life Sciences Collaborative Agreements & Acquisitions, (2012)

Prior Experience

Prior to joining AKD Partners, Fahd was a partner at an international law firm. Before attending law school, Fahd was a researcher and worked in the technology industry.