Daryn Grossman > Proskauer Rose LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile

Proskauer Rose LLP
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Work Department

Corporate

Position

Daryn A. Grossman is a partner in Proskauer’s Corporate Department and head of the Life Sciences Group.

Daryn is the former Managing Partner and continues to participate in the leadership of the firm in various capacities, working closely with the Firm’s Chair and Executive Committee in relation to the implementation of the Firm’s business strategy.

Over the course of her career, Daryn has served in several leadership positions including co-chair of Proskauer’s global Corporate Department, the Firm’s largest department, and as co-head of the Technology, Media & Telecommunications Group. She has also served on the Firm’s Hiring Committee, Business Development Committee and Lateral Acquisition Committee.  Daryn has championed the career of many women lawyers throughout the Firm and actively engages in the Proskauer Women’s Alliance programming.

As a tech-transactional lawyer, Daryn has designed and negotiated complex technology and intellectual property transaction structures, including strategic alliances, licensing, technology development and outsourcing transactions. Her clients include a wide range of life sciences, cloud computing, digital media, Internet, software, electronics, luxury goods, retail, fashion, entertainment, telecommunications and clean technology companies.

Daryn’s practice also focuses on technology mergers, acquisitions, sales and spinoffs. She represents both growth and mature companies, and counsels venture capitalists and strategic investors in evaluating intellectual property portfolios in connection with private equity investments, public offerings and mergers and acquisitions. Daryn often counsels boards of directors and management teams in navigating the critical commercial and legal issues surrounding product development and exploitation and risk mitigation.

Clients describe Daryn as “skilled and resourceful.” IAM Patent writes: “In the IP monetization area, there is nothing crack negotiator Daryn Grossman can’t do,” adding that she has “a command of all deal types across the IP commercialization spectrum…she can go toe to toe with anybody. She just gets deals done.”

Lawyer Rankings

United States > Healthcare > Life sciences

Proskauer Rose LLP‘s life sciences practice is particularly adept at handling multi-faceted patent disputes concerning biologics, medical devices and pharmaceutical developments, and 2023 saw the team expand with the arrivals of Erik Milch in Washington DC and Joseph Drayton in New York from Cooley LLP in July and October respectively, while Morrison Foerster‘s Grant Esposito and David Fioccola also joined the New York office in October. The team is led by Boston’s ‘excellent patent lawyer’ Fangli Chen, whose litigious experience encompasses immunotherapy, gene therapy and editing and vaccines, and managing partner and transactions specialist Daryn Grossman in New York. Siegmund Gutman has left the firm.