Helping clients turn legal complexities into business opportunities
Byrne Technology Law handles complex and day-to-day commercial and technology-based agreements with the agility and focus that growing companies need.
Innovative Solutions for Evolving Legal Landscapes
Sally Byrne
FOUNDER
I am a commercial and technology transactions attorney with a deep understanding of the legal challenges facing innovative businesses. After working for years at a top global law firm, I founded Byrne Technology Law to help companies with transactions when a high level of expertise is required, but the services of a large law firm are not cost effective. I am committed to navigating complex transactions to meet my clients' business needs in today’s fast-paced, dynamic environment. I hold a J.D. from Boston University School of Law and a B.S. in mathematics and modern language from Union College. I am admitted to practice in Massachusetts and am registered to practice with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. I also hold three privacy certifications (CIPP/US, CIPP/E, and CIPP/M) through the International Privacy Professional Association (IAPP).
Services
I provide legal services to clients across a variety of industries, including information technology, life sciences, manufacturing, and financial services. I handle a wide range of transactions, including patent and technology license agreements, cloud-based agreements, software license agreements, trademark license agreements, sponsored research agreements, CRO agreements, consulting agreements, master services agreements, major outsourcing agreements, manufacturing, distribution, and supply agreements, and content licensing agreements. I also conduct intellectual property due diligence and advise clients on the intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions.
Life Sciences
I help life sciences companies navigate a wide variety of transactions. With a focus on IP, R&D, and CRO agreements, I provide efficient legal solutions to support innovation and growth.
Recent Transactions
- Represented a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company in structuring and negotiating a packaging and distribution agreement, and related quality agreement, for the distribution of its drug candidate to its clinical trial sites.
- Represented an early stage immunotherapy company in negotiating a development, manufacturing and supply agreement involving the development of a process for manufacturing the company’s product, the allocation of IP rights, and terms for the supply of the product to the company.
- Represented a provider of pre-clinical research services in structuring and negotiating its customer master services agreement for its medicinal chemistry, custom synthesis, and scale-up process chemistry services.
- Represented a provider of proteomic services in structuring and negotiating its customer services agreements.
- Represented a DEL drug screening service provider in negotiating its customer agreements.
- Represented an early stage drug discovery company in structuring and negotiating several collaboration agreements with academic institutions involving the supply of human tissue samples and related data to the company for use in developing its drug discovery platform.
- Represented a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company in structuring and negotiating a material transfer agreement in connection with a larger consortium agreement.
- Represented a drug discovery company in negotiating several consulting services agreements with academic institutions and individual faculty members.
- Represented a healthcare platform provider in negotiating customer agreements and in-bound software license agreements for use in improving its platform.
- Represented a life sciences company in structuring and negotiating a collaboration agreement for the development, manufacture and commercialization of an instrument for analyzing cells.
- Represented an RNA therapeutic company in licensing patents and know-how directed to its RNA technology to a contract manufacturing organization.
Information Technology
I help companies structure and negotiate complex technology and outsourcing agreements that are aligned with their goals.
Recent Transactions
- Structured and negotiated SaaS agreement, professional services agreement, and managed services agreement for global software provider.
- Developed IT agreement templates and training materials for a manufacturing company’s procurement team, and conducted training for company personnel.
- Structured and negotiated SaaS customer agreements for a provider of risk management solutions.
- Represented a financial services institution in outsourcing its brokerage clearing services.
- Represented a Fortune 100 retailer in outsourcing its global IT functions.
- Represented a SaaS provider in negotiating customer agreements and a variety of in-bound license agreements to improve its product.
Mergers and Acquisitions
I guide companies through the IP aspects of the complex acquisition and divestiture process.
Recent Transactions
- Represented a software company in the divestiture of a portion of its business, including coordinating due diligence, advising the company on open source issues, and structuring and negotiating technology transfer documents.
- Represented a global manufacturing company in the divestiture of its business, including structuring and negotiating asset purchase agreement, transition services agreement, and technology transfer documents.
- Represented a life sciences company in the divestiture of its therapeutic business, including advising the company on the IP aspects of the transaction, and structuring and negotiating a technology transfer agreement and license agreements.
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