Sarah is an experienced corporate lawyer with a practice focused on corporate transactions in the life sciences industry, including strategic partnering and alliance transactions, licensing, clinical and manufacturing agreements, and supply and distribution arrangements. She advises her clients on a broad range of legal and business issues, especially those relating to the management, acquisition and disposition of intellectual property assets.

Before joining FDR, Sarah was a partner at Mintz Levin, a large Boston-based law firm.  In 2000 and 2001, she served as the Vice President of Legal Affairs for Microbia, Inc., a venture-backed start up company, where she gained additional exposure to the issues facing emerging companies. Prior to attending law school, Sarah was the Director of Corporate Technology Affairs at Centocor, Inc. in Malvern, PA (1986-1990), a leading biopharmaceutical company, and Director of Corporate Development at DNX, Inc. in Princeton, NJ. She has also had several years of experience in the corporate planning and corporate research fields at Squibb, Conoco and Westinghouse.

Sarah frequently speaks on licensing issues at forums such as MIT-Sloan, where she is a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council, and has been an active member of the Licensing Executives Society since 1986.

Sarah holds a J.D., summa cum laude, from Boston College, an M.S. in Management from MIT’s Sloan School of Management and B.A. and M.A. degrees from Johns Hopkins University in Mathematical Sciences, where she was elected a member of Phi Beta Kappa.