Maya Skubatch is a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where she focuses on patents and innovations counseling. Her practice covers patent prosecution, strategic patent counseling, investor- and company-side due diligence, and license agreements for clients in the life sciences and clean technology industries.

Prior to joining Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Maya was an associate in the intellectual property litigation practice at Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich LLP (now DLA Piper) in Palo Alto. While at UC Berkeley, Maya participated in research in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate Professor Randy Scheckman in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, where she studied Golgi protein transport in yeast cells. She also participated in research in the laboratory of Professor Sung-Hou Kim in the Department of Chemistry, where she studied various zinc-finger domains. After completing her B.A., Maya was a researcher at Genentech, where she helped clone and characterize APO2 ligand, a player in apoptosis signaling.

In addition to English, Maya is fluent in Hebrew.