Jeffrey Libson

Jeff Libson has practiced for 35+ years and is widely regarded as one of the leading life sciences practitioners in the eastern United States. His focus is on representing life sciences companies in business matters, including governance, financings, M&A and strategic transactions often as outside general counsel. For the past 14 years Jeff has been an adjunct professor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania where he teaches a graduate business course in life sciences entrepreneurship. Jeff represents numerous venture-backed and publicly traded life sciences companies in ongoing representations as outside corporate counsel. He also represents a number of nonprofit entities that support and serve the life sciences community. Jeff has deep experience with securities and venture financing matters. He has represented both issuers and underwriters in initial public offerings,follow-on offerings) and private placements of equity and debt securities and has counseled on more than 500 venture capital financings on both the company and investor side. He has also been involved with a number of mergers and acquisition transactions. He has advised buyers, sellers and investors in numerous acquisition, disposition and combination transactions involving both public and private companies across the biotech, diagnostics, pharmaceutical, healthcare and digital health sectors, among others. Jeff is actively engaged in the life of the community. He currently serves as a board member of the Sabin Vaccine Institute in Washington, D.C. He also serves as counsel to the national Association of Biosciences Financial Officers. In addition, he is a board member (former Board Chair) of Broad Street Ministry, a faithbased nonprofit organization that provides a variety of social services to the neediest residents of the Philadelphia community. He has also served on the boards of Life Sciences Pennsylvania (formerly, Pennsylvania Bio), BioStrategy Partners, The Pennsylvania Life Sciences Institute and The Friends’ Central School. In addition, he has served as the co-chair of the Pennsylvania Bio – BioNJ Annual Symposium, the co-chair of the Mid-Atlantic Venture Conference and the inaugural co-chair of the Early Stage East Bio-Life-Tech venture capital conference.

Education

• Duke University School of Law
• JD, 1981, with distinction, Order of the Coif
• Oberlin College
• BA, 1976, Economics and English

Memberships

• The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Adjunct professor
• Sabine Vaccine Institute, Board member
• Broad Street Ministry, Board member (Former Board Chair)
• Life Sciences Pennsylvania, Former Secretary and Board member
• Pennsylvania Life Sciences Institute, Former Board Member
• BioStrategy Partners, Former Board Member
• Friends' Central School, Former Member, Board of Trustees