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About Shannon O'Hara

Shannon is an Associate in our New York office primarily supporting our Life Sciences Transactions team. She advises companies in the healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotech space on a variety of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, licensing agreements, commercial agreements and corporate reorganizations.

Prior to becoming a lawyer, Shannon conducted graduate-level quantitative research analyzing the relationship between ecotoxicological factors and human disease. She has also previously worked as a program coordinator for a university digital health center. 

Recent work

 

  • Merz Therapeutics on its $185 million acquisition of the assets of Acorda Therapeutics, Inc. through a court structured 363 sale process under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.
  • Johnson & Johnson on its $13.1 billion acquisition of Shockwave Medical, Inc.
  • Novartis on its exclusive license agreement with Arvinas, Inc. for the global development and commercialization of a prostate cancer treatment.
  • Roivant Sciences on its sale of Dermavant to Organon for up to $1.2 billion.
  • Cencora (f/k/a AmerisourceBergen) on its pending $4.6 billion acquisition of Retina Consultants of America.
  • AstraZeneca on its acquisition of Gracell Biotechnologies.

Qualifications

Education

  • Duke University School of Law, J.D., 2023
    • Notes Editor, Duke Law Journal
  • Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment, M.E.M., Ecotoxicology, 2023
  • University of California, Berkeley, B.S., Molecular Environmental Biology, 2019

Bar Admission

  • New York, 2024
  • Pennsylvania, 2023