Gavin Liu

About

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

Practice Areas

Featured Clients

Hayflick TherapeuticsAnivive LifesciencesTherna BiosciencesLongitude RxPair X BioLongitude Health

Services

• Fractional GC Services

  Monthly retainer model for fractional GC support across organizational legal needs: contracting, corporate, compliance, employment, trademark, etc.
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• Strategic Transactions Support

  Full-cycle and comprehensive support for investment, partnering, licensing, M&A/divestment, and other strategic transactions
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• Contracts Counsel Services

  Support for operational contracting support (e.g, CDAs, MTAs, sponsored research, SaaS and other vendor agreements, consulting agreements)
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"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."

Work

• 
  Senior Director, Strategic Transactions

  Astellas Pharma US

  Aug 2020 - Apr 2025
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  Associate

  Latham & Watkins LLP

  Nov 2014 - Jul 2020
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  Research Assistant, Keck Center for Integrative Neuroscience

  UCSF

  Jun 2010 - Feb 2011

Education

• University of Berkeley School of Law
  J.D.
• Duke University
  B.S. • 2010