Does anyone in tech transactions work somewhere that doesn’t do mostly life sciences?

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I’m a partner at a SV flagship firm firm and do all non-biotech work. That said, why do you want this? In the era of AI, biotech work is much more resilient than a slew of IT stuff. I think a lot of software deals in particular will stop coming to law firms in the next couple years.

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I dont believe biotech is safe either

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Most of Perkins’ tech transactions work isn’t focused on life sciences. Are you currently in life sciences TT now? I’d be interested to hear what about it you find less appealing.

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My firm does a mix of things, but lately almost everything has been life sciences. Much more so than when I first joined. It’s just a matter of personally not being interested in the work.

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WSGR is mostly IT. we have a separate bio group

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It’s okay usually. Good personalities and bad ones too. But you know big law is big law.

Yep. I do software, AI, cloud, other tech. Never even see life sciences.

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Where at? Are you hiring

I do - tech trans across software and hardware, not limited to life sciences (in fact, my group seems to do all sorts).

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Perkins is the only real game in town if you want to do standalone, non-M&A support, non-life sciences TT work. Largest group of any firm by far, always busy, and some of the best attorneys I have ever worked with in this space. The mid levels and juniors are often competent enough to lead drafts and negotiations with partners on other side with little supervision and run circles around them - point is the training is intense and ramp up is quicker than at almost any other firm I see. I’m in ECVC but I there are a few partners there that do data center infra work (supply, procurement, custom chip deals, collabs, licensing, etc.), and their work seems to always be insanely busy and there are like 8-10 associates that mostly do just that for those 2-3 partners, then there is all the AI work and product counseling work and other general IT work done by the rest of the 100+ person group. .

Work in tech trans and exclusively do ITO, BPO, AI, XaaS and other commercial contracting work. Haven’t touched life sciences my entire career

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