Edward J. Buthusiem

Prior to that, Mr. Buthusiem was a senior executive at a $45 billion global pharmaceutical and consumer healthcare company. He served in senior capacities including Vice President Global and Strategic Transactions, Senior Vice President, Head of Deal Structuring & General Counsel of R&D and Senior Vice President, Head of Business Development & General Counsel of Vaccines and Senior Vice President & Special Counsel. Among other things, Mr. Buthusiem was responsible for structuring and managing the team that drafted and negotiated product and technology licensing agreements on a global basis as head of Business Development for the Vaccines division and head of Deal Structuring for Pharma R&D. Mr. Buthusiem also served on numerous project and product management teams that were responsible for the discovery, development, and marketing of new drugs and the lifecycle management of existing products and therapeutic franchises. He also managed the group responsible for providing governance and oversight for third-party collaborations as well as the development and dissemination of scientific marketing materials to prescribing physicians with overall responsibility for the company’s Speaker’s Program.

During his tenures at these companies, Mr. Buthusiem was responsible for directly structuring, valuing, drafting, and negotiating, as well as providing alliance management support for all global transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, pharmaceutical product and R&D licensing and development transactions, pharmaceutical product divestitures, investment banker and broker deals, venture capital partnerships, academic and scientific collaborations, commercial joint ventures, marketing, supply and distribution agreements, and other corporate and commercial transactions.

Altogether, Mr. Buthusiem was directly responsible for well over a thousand pharmaceutical and medical device transactions involving billions of dollars of value. His expertise includes the following types of transactions:

• Product and technology licensing and research collaboration agreements
• Research consortia agreements
• Intellectual property in-licensing, out-licensing, and cross-licensing agreements involving pharmaceutical and medical device products and projects.
• Drug, device, vaccine, and biological product research and development agreements
• Mergers and acquisitions involving businesses, pharmaceutical and medical device products.
• Early stage drug, device, vaccine, and biological product research development agreements
• Co-promotion and co-marketing agreements
• Manufacturing, supply, and distribution agreements
• Business broker and venture capital investment transactions
• Grant agreements
• Pre-clinical research agreements
• Government contracts
• CRO services agreements
• Clinical trial agreements

Mr. Buthusiem was previously an attorney in private practice with two nationally recognized law firms. During his tenure in private practice, he worked in both firms’ Corporate and Securities practices and provided legal advice in areas including M&A due diligence and transactions, as well as corporate agreement transactional drafting, guidance, and review.

Throughout his career both as a Business Development executive and general counsel, Mr. Buthusiem has advised numerous companies and institutions, their executive management, and boards of directors on corporate governance issues involving fiduciary duties and conflicts of interest. Mr. Buthusiem has rendered such advice in connection with the sale of pharmaceutical products to current and former employees and has also advised on similar situations while serving as a director on external boards. In each case, through his advice Mr. Buthusiem has sought to ensure that any conflicts of interest, whether in the context of transactions or generally, were appropriately addressed and proper safeguards implemented and followed accordingly.