Lawyer & Commercialization Adviser, U.K
Lecture: Ensuring Performance – key clauses for effective licensing deals
Master Class: Building a Deal Making Network

Patricia Barclay studied law at Edinburgh and Oxford Universities before embarking on a career primarily in life sciences which has taken her all over the world. She held a number of senior positions with significant international business, before moving to consultancy and mediation in technology transfer.

Patricia Barclay studied law at Edinburgh and Oxford Universities before embarking on a career primarily in life sciences which has taken her all over the world.  She held a number of senior positions with Pfizer before becoming General Counsel of Vernalis, a position she subsequently held at the privately  held  multinational Ferring Group and at Solvay Pharmaceuticals.  She has accordingly been involved in decision making at the highest level in very different companies.  She has extensive experience in the negotiation of complex international licensing and cooperation agreements, mergers and acquisitions, the management of intellectual property, public affairs and the establishment and development of internal services and departments.  Her work was recently recognised by the American Bar Association with an invitation to become a Fellow of the ABA Foundation, a rare honour for a non-US lawyer.
Patricia is also an accredited mediator.  She is a member of the Association for Conflict Resolution, Mediators Beyond Borders and of the WIPO mediation panel.  She currently serves as chair of the International Bar Association mediation techniques committee.

In 2007 she established Bonaccord, a law firm specialising in the commercialisation of scientific research. Additionally, Patricia has developed a number of courses, primarily in intellectual property, entrepreneurship and negotiation skills for a variety of institutions including the University of Edinburgh.