Mary E. Kohart

Her extensive experience and expertise in complex transactional and litigation matters, strategic approach and problem-solving skills, along with her past long collaboration with Dr. Spireas, are invaluable company assets. Mary has been serving as outside legal counsel for Dr. Spireas and Sigmapharm Laboratories since 2011 during the company’s evolution from a start-up to a full-fledged, vertically integrated specialty pharmaceutical company. Prior to joining Sigmapharm in 2020, Ms. Kohart practiced law for over thirty-five years and obtained extensive litigation experience in cases involving the pharmaceutical industry. Before becoming employed by the company, Mary spent most of her career as a partner at the national firm now known as Faegre-Drinker-Biddle and, later, at Elliott-Greenleaf, a regional litigation law firm, where she developed expertise in litigation matters arising in the pharmaceutical industry which frequently involved issues relating to the significance of FDA approved labels and thorny issues regarding causation. While she now devotes herself full time to her position at Sigmapharm, she has always remained active in charitable organizations where her legal skills can prove helpful. Currently, she is the Chancellor of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania, and during the years before she joined Sigmapharm, she served as the Chairperson of Philadelphia’s Committee of Seventy, was on the Boards of the Philadelphia Chapter of the ACLU and of the Women’s Way, and a member of the ACLU legal committee. She spent several years teaching undergraduate students at Temple University in Philadelphia and thereafter teaching a class on the legal aspects of entrepreneurial business at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School for three years. Mary is a 1982 graduate of the Syracuse University College of Law and after her law school graduation, she clerked for two years for a federal district court judge.