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Movers & Shakers
Alston & Bird LLP has announced that Deepro Mukerjee will join its New York office as a partner in the Intellectual Property Litigation Group. Mukerjee brings extensive experience in intellectual property offerings, including the prosecution, litigation and licensing of patents, in addition to counseling several bio-technology companies.
“Deepro's expansive intellectual property litigation expertise, unique background in life sciences and experience with the FDA adds tremendous value and depth to our intellectual property practice,” said Richard R. Hays, managing partner of Alston & Bird. “He further strengthens our robust intellectual property practice, which boasts both national and international clients.”
Prior to joining Alston & Bird, Mukerjee served as a partner in the intellectual property litigation group at Greenberg Traurig LLP in New York. In this role, he provided business and intellectual property counseling to a wide variety of clients and closed multimillion dollar deals for several bio-technology companies. While his academic background is in molecular and cell biology, Mukerjee also garnered extensive experience in litigating patents directed to a wide variety of technologies, ranging from diagnostic assays to electrical circuit interrupting devices.
“Deepro's expansive intellectual property litigation expertise, unique background in life sciences and experience with the FDA adds tremendous value and depth to our intellectual property practice,” said Richard R. Hays, managing partner of
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