Gavin Liu

Life Sciences & Healthcare Attorney. Strategize. Catalyze. Protect.

About

Servicing licensing, partnering, fundraising, and commercial contracting transactions, with industry expertise in biotech, pharma, and healthcare. Fractional GC services also provided.

Practice areas

Commercial Contracts > Licensing
Health & Life > Biotech
Health & Life > Pharmaceuticals
Intellectual Property > IP Licensing
Technology Law > Healthtech
General Corporate
Commercial Contracts

Featured clients

Pair X Bio
Therna Biosciences
Anivive Lifesciences
Longitude Health
Hayflick Therapeutics
Longitude Rx

Services

Fractional GC Services
Monthly retainer model for fractional GC support across organizational legal needs: contracting, corporate, compliance, employment, trademark, etc.
Strategic Transactions Support
Full-cycle and comprehensive support for investment, partnering, licensing, M&A/divestment, and other strategic transactions
Contracts Counsel Services
Support for operational contracting support (e.g, CDAs, MTAs, sponsored research, SaaS and other vendor agreements, consulting agreements)

What clients say

“Hayflick is a development-stage biotech advancing a new era of healthspan by responsibly pioneering the use of rapamycin. We engaged Gavin when we needed a license agreement with a university and a range of general legal support for our startup. Gavin was notable for excellent timeliness and his ability to anticipate issues before they became problems; he brings a range of experience from startups to big pharma and from both outside counsel and in-house perspectives, which enabled him to find practical, commercially minded solutions and keep matters moving efficiently. He was responsive, pragmatic, and focused on aligning the legal work with our business needs.”
Mike Rafa
Founder, General Counsel, Hayflick Therapeutics

Experience

Senior Director, Strategic Transactions
Astellas Pharma US
Aug 2020 – Apr 2025
Associate
Latham & Watkins LLP
Nov 2014 – Jul 2020
Research Assistant, Keck Center for Integrative Neuroscience
UCSF
Jun 2010 – Feb 2011
J.D.
University of Berkeley School of Law
B.S.
Duke University
2010