Connecting with Companies
A Guide to Consulting Agreements for Biomedical Scientists
Will be published approx. on 31. March 2014
Book
Hardback
156 pages
978-1-62182-107-6 (ISBN)
Description
Before you sign a consulting agreement, this must-have reference work will help you understand the key issues to consider -- from intellectual property, confidentiality, and compensation, to often overlooked issues such as indemnity, different classes of stock, and the relevance of insider trading and securities laws.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
Figures; Line drawings, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
399 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-62182-107-6 (9781621821076)
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Edward Klees is General Counsel at the University of Virginia Investment Management Company, where he works on private equity and hedge fund investment and legal issues relating to general investment management. He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and Vice Chair of the American Bar Association's (ABA) Institutional Investor Committee. Klees frequently speaks on institutional investment issues at the ABA and other legal and investment conferences. Formerly, he was Associate General Counsel at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He has extensive background in the review and negotiation of biomedical consulting contracts. H. Robert Horvitz is currently at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is Professor of Biology and a member of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research and Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. He is also an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He currently serves as the Chair of the Board of Trustees for Society for Science & the Public and is a member of the Board of Trustees at Massachusetts General Hospital. Horvitz shared the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sydney Brenner and John Sulston. In 2009, he was named a Foreign Member of the Royal Society.