Samantha Lefland
Lawyers
Advises on IP and technology matters, including strategic commercial and licensing arrangements, mergers, acquisitions and other corporate transactions.
Samantha advises clients on a wide range of IP and technology-related corporate and commercial transactions, including licensing and collaboration agreements, supply and distribution agreements and other strategic commercial agreements. She also advises on the IP and technology-related aspects of M&A transactions, joint ventures, financings, restructurings and capital markets offerings.
Experience
Healthcare & Life Sciences
- GSK strategic alliance with Vesalius Therapeutics
- GSK collaboration with Flagship Pioneering
- GSK exclusive license agreement for HS-20093 with Hansoh Pharma
- GSK exclusive license agreement for HS-20089 with Hansoh Pharma
- GSK collaboration extension and new data licensing agreement with 23andMe
- GSK exclusive licensing agreement with Scynexis
- Cellular Biomedicine Group CAR-T collaboration and license agreement with Janssen
- AC Immune exclusive option and license agreement with Takeda Pharmaceuticals
- Novo Nordisk acquisition of certain Catalent sites from Novo Holdings
- Endo divestiture of International Pharmaceuticals business
Transportation & Logistics
- Spirit Airlines emerges from chapter 11
- Delta Air Lines $9 billion SkyMiles secured financings
- Spirit Airlines $850 million senior notes offering
- Davis Polk Advises Kitty Hawk Corporation on Its Formation of a Strategic Partnership with Boeing
Consumer Products & Retail
- Revlon BrandCo $815 million financing
- Heineken strategic partnership with China Resources to join forces in China
- Davis Polk Advises VF Corporation on Its Acquisition of the Altra Footwear Brand
- Davis Polk Advises VF Corporation on the Sale of the Reef Brand to The Rockport Group
- Spectrum Brands $4.3 billion sale of its Hardware & Home Improvement segment
Insights
Education
J.D., Stanford Law School
- Executive Editor, Stanford Law Review
B.S., Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University
Qualifications and admissions
- State of New York