Kerry Sharp

Kerry has served as their General Counsel since October 2015. She heads up the teams in legal, intellectual property, corporate compliance and clinical compliance, COSSH/Biological Safety (BioCOSSH) and HTA Compliance teams.

She graduated from Imperial College with a Bsc. Hons in Biotechnology before qualifying as an English solicitor. Having over 20 years of experience, she started her legal career at magic circle firm, Linklaters before moving to IP niche firm Bird and Bird. From there, Kerry became sole counsel at Innovision, Research and Technology plc and then Regional Counsel, Europe at Broadcom Inc. Subsequently, Kerry was a commercial IP partner and co-head of the life sciences practice area at Pennington’s Manches LLP advising on a wide variety of life sciences transactions including licensing, collaboration and research, IP exploitation and strategy, life sciences regulatory advice, manufacturing, clinical trial agreements, technology transfer and supply and distribution agreements.