Dr. Lila W. Hope is a partner in the Life Sciences practice group and a member of the Cooley Business department. She joined the Firm in 2002 and is a resident in the Palo Alto office.
Her practice focuses on the representation of life sciences companies discovering, developing and marketing pharmaceutical, vaccine, medical device, diagnostic and digital Health products. She counsels clients ranging from privately-held companies to Fortune 500 companies. She specializes in transactions involving complex intellectual property, business, operational and legal issues, including strategic partnerships, discovery and option deals, and complex asset purchases. In addition, she counsels clients' management, operational and legal teams on matters involving licensing, supply, distribution, clinical trials, research collaborations and contract services. She is also regularly involved in financing, public offering and M&A transactions through evaluating a company's product rights and operational risks.
Some of the recent transactions she was involved in include Otsuka's $825 million collaboration with Lundbeck on an Alzheimer's drug, Cytokinetics's $490 million skeletal muscle collaboration with Astellas, Portola's worldwide collaboration with Biogen IDEC on autoimmune therapies valued at $553 million, FivePrime's discovery collaborations with GlaxoSmithKline and UCB, the initial public offering for Portola and Prothena, and Gilead's acquisition of CV Therapeutics. In addition, she maintains an active practice in cross-border licensing transactions. In 2013, she handled eight regional licensing, co-development and distribution transactions, with five involving product rights in Asia.
Dr. Hope graduated with a JD magna cum laude in 2002, from Duke University School of Law, where she was elected to Order of the Coif. At Duke, she was awarded the "Class of 1968 Scholarship." She earned her PhD in Cancer Biology from Stanford University School of Medicine in 1999, characterizing a novel tumor susceptibility gene as a Stanford Markey Predoctoral Fellow.
Dr. Hope is a member of the State Bar of California and the American Bar Association. She currently serves as director on the Board of Governors for the Stanford University School of Medicine Alumni Association.
