Hayan Yoon, Ph.D.

650-335-7908
hyoon@fenwick.com
Partner
Intellectual Property

Hayan
Yoon, Ph.D.

Hayan
Yoon, Ph.D.

Hayan
Yoon, Ph.D.

Partner
Intellectual Property

Hayan provides comprehensive patent guidance to her clients, specializing in advising emerging growth and publicly traded life science companies and venture capital firms on various aspects of strategic intellectual property and patent counseling.

Hayan has an in-depth grasp of the life sciences industry and corporate goals. She leverages her significant scientific and legal experience in life sciences to counsel clients related to U.S. and foreign patent prosecution and management, patent strategy, IP diligence pre-litigation assessment, post-issuance proceeding, and validity and infringement opinions. She has extensive experience in assessing competitive IP landscapes and complex IP assets and advising strategies for improving IP assets while mitigating risks.

Before her legal career, Hayan was a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley and the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, and a researcher at a gene therapy company. She maintains her passion for life sciences while providing counsel to her clients in the life science industry.

Hayan's representative experience includes IP diligence in the following deals:

  • Royalty Pharma on IP diligence in its $525 million purchase of royalties for ImmuNext's frexalimab
  • Pharmakon’s non-dilutive term loan financing for ImmunoGen for up to $175M
  • Pharmakon’s $100 million loan agreement with Immunocore
  • Passage Bio’s $110 million series B financing and initial and follow-on public offerings
  • Impel Pharmaceuticals’ sale to JN BIDCO LLC
  • Adaptive Biotechnologies’ $345 initial public offering

Hayan's representative experience includes IP diligence in the following deals:

  • Royalty Pharma on IP diligence in its $525 million purchase of royalties for ImmuNext's frexalimab
  • Pharmakon’s non-dilutive term loan financing for ImmunoGen for up to $175M
  • Pharmakon’s $100 million loan agreement with Immunocore
  • Passage Bio’s $110 million series B financing and initial and follow-on public offerings
  • Impel Pharmaceuticals’ sale to JN BIDCO LLC
  • Adaptive Biotechnologies’ $345 initial public offering

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Recognition
The Legal 500

2023

Recognized as a Rising Star for Patents: Prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)

The Recorder

2018

Named Hayan to "Next Generation Women Leaders in Tech Law" list which recognizes lawyers who have shown promise as leaders in law and technology

Super Lawyers

2022-2023

Recognized as a Rising Star for Intellectual Property

Recognition
The Legal 500

2023

Recognized as a Rising Star for Patents: Prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)

The Recorder

2018

Named Hayan to "Next Generation Women Leaders in Tech Law" list which recognizes lawyers who have shown promise as leaders in law and technology

Super Lawyers

2022-2023

Recognized as a Rising Star for Intellectual Property