Sheila Wohl Chandonnet

Sheila Chandonnet is an experienced life science-focused transactional, corporate and contracts attorney with a broad legal and business background. Her 25-year legal career, has encompassed in-house as well as large law firm experience, combined with her previous business experience focused on finance and treasury management. Her practice focuses on pharmaceutical, biotechnology and other life sciences companies and advising on their commercial contracts and business transactions, including a wide array of licensing, collaboration transactions, product acquisitions and divestitures, site divestitures, outsourcing agreements, and supply, distribution and manufacturing agreements.

Ms. Chandonnet’s 17 years of in-house counsel experience was primarily in the pharmaceutical / life sciences / healthcare industry, most recently as the Head of US Legal Operations at Sanofi & Aventis Pharmaceuticals. She has provided legal support for licensing, M&A, business development, procurement, manufacture and supply agreements, commercial contracts and corporate governance. She also worked with drafting policies, venture capital investments agreements, alliance management, securities, and real estate matters. She has experience with advising on commercialized product brand support.

At Morgan Lewis & Bockius and at K&L Gates, Ms. Chandonnet advised corporate clients in contracts, financing, securities transactions, and other strategic matters. Her clients included a variety of clients including large pharmaceutical companies as well as smaller, emerging biotech and life sciences companies.

Ms. Chandonnet also has an extensive finance background, having served as a treasury and operations executive in the telecommunications industry.

She holds a BS from Penn State University, an MBA from the University of Delaware, and a JD from Rutgers University School of Law. Ms. Chandonnet is admitted as a lawyer in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and North Carolina.