Kristy Brady Email & Phone Number

Alameda, California, United States

• Lead team of in-house and outside counsel in negotiating and drafting licensing and acquisition agreements on behalf of the company.
• Support the execution of collaborations and strategic partnerships, including negotiating contract amendments, forecasting milestone and other contractual payments, and counseling internal clients on scope of rights.
• Navigate contractual disputes, including advising internal clients on options and potential outcomes, instructing… Show more
• Navigate contractual disputes, including advising internal clients on options and potential outcomes, instructing arbitration counsel on factual bases of breaches and required and desired remedies, and negotiating with.

Oakland, California, United States

Friends of Sausal Creek works to protect, conserve, and restore the Sausal Creek Watershed in Oakland, California.

Palo Alto And San Diego, California And London, UK

• Represent and counsel biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical device, and other life science-based companies entering into strategic transactions and commercial agreements, including complex collaborations, worldwide.
• Negotiate and draft commercial and intellectual property licensing agreements on behalf of clients, including collaboration agreements, commercial and academic… Show more
• Negotiate and draft commercial and intellectual property licensing agreements on behalf of clients, including collaboration agreements, commercial and academic in-licenses, commercial out-licenses, contract services.
• Support M&A transactions by performing due diligence of material agreements and preparing disclosure schedules.
• Counsel on and prepare summaries and redactions of material agreements for public company securities filings. Show less

Palo Alto, California

Drafted contract provisions for licensing and collaboration agreements; prepared documents for company formations; assisted with document preparation for venture capital financings.

San Francisco, CA

Legal Intern in the Appeals, Writs & Trials Section of the Criminal Law Division. Drafted briefs for post-conviction proceedings that dealt with constitutional, evidentiary, and instructional issues. Reviewed the record on appeal, conducted research, analyzed legal issues, and developed arguments to persuasively advocate for the government. Briefs were.

Directed all department fundraising and donor cultivation and stewardship. Secured over $5.5M in new endowed funding. Administered 34 endowments. Prepared reports and correspondence for donors and University officials.

Developed and taught an honors seminar for molecular and cellular biology and for plant and animal physiology.

Developed an independent research project to study the genetic and physiological adaptations of yellow monkeyflowers (Mimulus guttatus) to serpentine soil, a naturally occurring toxic soil.

Managed a research laboratory investigating the genetic basis of adaptive differences contributing to reproductive isolation between two species of monkeyflower (Mimulus lewisii and M. cardinalis). Co-managed field experiments in Yosemite National Park to study the species’ ecological adaptations.

Doctor Of Law (J.D.), Magna Cum Laude, Order Of The Coif

Activities and Societies: Hastings Law Journal, 2013-15 Hastings Intellectual Property Association, 2012-14

M.S., Botany And Evolutionary Biology

Master's research: Adaptation of Mimulus guttatus (Phrymaceae) to serpentine soil. • K. Brady, A.R. Kruckeberg, H.D. Bradshaw, Jr. 2005..

B.S., B.S., Botany And Biology, Phi Beta Kappa

Activities and Societies: Mary Gates Research Scholar Greenhouse Assistant Mt. St. Helen's NVM Herbarium Volunteer Field Research Technician

Cultural Geography, Conservation Biology

UCSF Wildlands Studies Program Independent project: What the land means to women: Four cultural perspectives.