Strategic Legal & Operational Guidance

Award-Winning General Counsel; 20 Years in the Life Sciences

DeVoreGC offers fractional General Counsel and strategic legal advisory services. Located in the San Francisco Bay Area, DeVoreGC is your partner to help you navigate the legal complexities of bringing your life science products to market.

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Legal & Your Growth Journey

Guiding your life science product to market requires a strategic legal partner who understands the nuances of the journey. See my five-phase framework to support your company’s growth journey.

  • > Establish robust corporate governance structures that align with your vision, values, and ethical standards.

    > Foster a culture of trust and transparency, ensuring principled business practices across all levels of your organization.

    > Enable informed leadership through strategic decision-making processes that embed integrity into daily operations.

    Specialization Highlights: Expertise in drafting practical governing documents, shareholder agreements, and compliance programs ensuring your governance structure supports sustainable growth.

    Example Success: Created a comprehensive legal operational framework with practical, business-focused compliance measures to ensure ethical, scalable, and growth-ready operations.

  • > Seamlessly integrate legal considerations and risk management strategies into all facets of your business.

    > Implement innovative tools and workflows that reduce costs and accelerate time-to-market.

    > Streamline operations with a focus on quality, reproducibility, and sustainability, ensuring confident and accelerated scalability.

    Specialization Highlight: Proficient in designing programs and workflows for contract management, labor policies, and operational compliance to reduce bottlenecks and ensure scalability.

    Example Success: Designed contract workflows for a life sciences company, reducing legal processing time by 30% and enhancing collaboration between R&D and manufacturing​.

  • > Build internal and external IP management expertise to cultivate innovation, strengthen your brand, and grow your reputation.

    > Develop global strategic IP operations to protect your products while maximizing their value in competitive markets.

    > Identify and pursue strategic partnerships, licenses, and opportunities to drive business growth.

    Specialization Highlight: Expertise in global IP management strategies and contract design to ensure IP assets are protected and strategically leveraged.

    Example Success: Designed and implemented a comprehensive patent generation process for a life sciences company, creating clear and effective invention disclosure procedures that incentivized and motivated innovation across R&D teams.

  • > Identify high-value opportunities and evaluate monetization potential for strategic business development.

    > Negotiate and structure deals with a focus on risk mitigation and value creation.

    > Ensure smooth integration of partnerships through comprehensive alliance management systems.

    Specialization Highlight: Skilled in structuring and negotiating complex research agreements, clinical programs, licensing deals, and corporate partnerships to maximize value while minimizing risks.

    Example Success: Orchestrated a complex research program by structuring and negotiating tailored agreements while coordinating effective alliance management, ensuring the program’s success.

  • > Design go-to-market strategies that integrate regulatory compliance, ethical standards, marketing, and sales systems to ensure principled and effective market entry.

    > Develop scalable systems for quality management, supply chain logistics, and commercial operations, embedding legal and ethical considerations.

    > Create structured exit strategies that ensure value retention, uphold regulatory integrity, and secure a lasting market presence.

    Expertise Highlight: Expertise in structuring strategic supply chain partnerships, navigating complex FDA compliance requirements, and implementing scalable legal systems to accelerate product launches and drive early revenue growth.

    Example Success: Enabled faster, more efficient diagnostic commercialization by renegotiating supply chain partnerships and refining scalable systems, accelerating partnership deals while building trust and aligning deal terms.