Julien E. Capers

Julien E. Capers serves as Vera Therapeutics’ Vice President, Head of Legal. He brings nearly 15 years of experience in healthcare and legal services to this role, where he oversees Vera’s global legal function, including corporate governance, strategic transactions, compliance, development, and management of Vera’s intellectual property portfolio.

Prior to joining Vera Therapeutics, Mr. Capers served as Assistant General Counsel at Zogenix, Inc., where he was responsible for all of commercial and corporate legal in the United States and Japan, and actively contributed to the transaction selling Zogenix to UCB Biosciences in 2022. Prior to his time at Zogenix, Mr. Capers served as Associate General Counsel for Establishment Labs Holdings, Inc., a multi-national medical device company. Mr. Capers began his in-house legal career as corporate counsel at CareDx. Previously, he practiced law at the international firm of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, focusing on intellectual property and technology transactions in the life sciences industry, and at Bryan Cave, focusing on commercial litigation.

Prior to law school, Mr. Capers worked at the industry-leading consulting firms, The Zitter Group (acquired by Managed Markets Insight & Technology) and Defined Health (now part of Lumanity), providing managed markets and business development strategy services to life sciences clients.

Mr. Capers received his BS from Stanford University and JD from UC Davis School of Law.