Daryl Fairbairn
Primary Areas of Practice: Intellectual property, M&A/corporate
Work History: 2000-present, Clifford Chance offices in New York, Dusseldorf and Silicon Valley
Daryl is a counsel in the Corporate Group of the New York office of Clifford Chance where he recently returned from practicing in the firm's global healthcare and life sciences group in Düsseldorf Germany for five years. He advises life sciences and technology companies in cross-border intellectual property-driven transactions, including strategic M&A, joint ventures, complex licensing and collaborative arrangements, and other commercial transactions dealing with product R&D, supply, manufacturing and development.
Prior to graduating from Columbia Law School, Daryl joined the firm as a scientific consultant after earning a Ph.D. in microbiology from Brigham Young University and conducting postdoctoral research in immunogenetics at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.
Daryl is admitted to practice in New York, California and before the US Patent and Trademark Office.