Dr. DeShield is a pharmaceutical, biomedical and life sciences intellectual property attorney with more than seven years' experience. He is well-versed in Intellectual Property and other legal matters including but not limited to patent litigation and counseling, patent prosecution and preparation, trademark counseling and trade secret. His experience also broadly encompasses due diligence, reviewing and drafting documents embodying aspects of food and drug law, regulatory law, anti-trust, contract, corporate and commercial law. His experience traverses translational matters pertaining to licensing, assignments, mergers and acquisitions, research and joint development collaborative agreements, service, manufacturing and quality control agreements, confidentiality agreements, material transfer agreements and pre-clinical and clinical trial agreements.