King, T. Scott

Sandhya Kilaru is an associate in the Corporate Practice Department in the firm's Stamford office with a primary focus in pharmaceutical and biotechnology licensing. She has been involved with numerous transactions for U.S., European and Asian companies, including research licenses, co-development collaborations, intellectual property transfer agreements, university materials transfer agreements, multi-center clinical trial agreements, manufacturing, supply and distribution agreements, commercialization and co-promotion arrangements, and resolution of patent and licensing disputes. Her experience includes assisting clients at all stages of the deal-making life cycle, from reviewing term sheets to drafting and negotiating agreements to addressing alliance management issues that arise during the term of the collaboration.

As a pro bono attorney for Lawyers for Children America, Sandhya has also represented several children and served as guardian ad litem in cases brought by Connecticut's Department of Children and Families.

Sandhya received her B.S. in Biological Sciences and B.A. in English from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. Before beginning her law career, Sandhya worked as a research assistant at Indiana University in a molecular and developmental biology laboratory funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and is an author on the paper, "The centrosome is a dynamic structure that ejects PCM flares." Megraw Timothy L; Kilaru Sandhya; Turner F Rudolf; Kaufman Thomas C. Journal of cell science 2002;115(Pt 23):4707-18.