CPHL Guest lecture: Shantanu Mukherjee on “Lessons from the pandemic: Is IP a barrier to public health?”
CPHL Guest lecture: Shantanu Mukherjee on “Lessons from the pandemic: Is IP a barrier to public health?”
Vaccines promise a hope to end the pandemic. But the limitations on manufacturing capabilities amidst a web of intellectual property and reluctance of pharam companies to share the technology have raised concerns about negative impact of IP in access to medicines. To know the nitty-gritty’s of these issues, CPHL is hosting a two day lecture series by
Shantanu Mukherjee. He is the founder of Ronin Legal, a boutique legal practice that focuses on healthcare, technology, M&A and corporate advisory.
Shantanu is a New York and India qualified lawyer, with an LL.M from Columbia Law School, New York, and a B.A, LL.B (with a gold medal in Intellectual Property law) from National Law School of India University. He's lived and worked around the world: with Linklaters in New York, White & Case in Singapore, Goodwin Procter in Hong Kong and as Global GC of a commodities/energy group in Dubai. In India, he's been Global Legal Head for M&A at Cipla, and Regional GC for APAC and Japan at Lupin. He began his career in Luthra & Luthra's M&A team in Delhi, in 2002. He has two decades of experience managing complex and high-value transactions, including cross-border M&A, joint ventures, insolvency restructuring, structured finance and intellectual property licensing.
He actively writes and teaches in his free time. He is offering a full credit course on Healthcare Law at NLU Delhi, has taught at Singapore Management University and Mallya Aditya School, and been published in, among others, India Business Law Journal, news18.com and The Quint. He also has a monthly column in the SCC Online Blog's "Experts Corner" (https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/category/experts_corner/shantanu-mukherjee/).
He will be speaking on “Lessons from the pandemic: Is IP a barrier to public health?”
Time: 3.00 pm to 4.30 pm on 26th and 27th August, 2021
Platform: Google Meet
