Robert Clarke
Division Counsel, Licensing & Acquisitions at Abbott
- Role
- Division Counsel, Licensing & Acquisitions at Abbott
- Location
- Chicago, IL, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Robert Clarke
I have over 20 years of legal experience, including serving as a senior in-house counsel for a Fortune 100 diversified medical device, diagnostics and pharmaceutical company, with significant experience advising executive management and their teams on complex transactions and commercial support in the areas of U.S. and international healthcare regulatory, quality, fraud and abuse, compliance and general commercial legal issues.
Experience
Division Counsel, Licensing & Acquisitions
May 2024 — Present · Chicago, IL, US
I support the Licensing & Acquisitions group of Abbott, leading mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and private equity investments across Abbott\'s business units, including medical devices, diagnostics, pharma and nutrition.Representative transactions include-$23 billion acquisition of Exact Sciences Corporation, a publicly-traded oncology diagnostics company -$25 billion acquisition of St. Jude Medical, Inc, a publicly-traded medical device company- Complex global carveout divestiture of vessel closure device and steerable catheter businesses to Japanese acquirer- Acquisition of German AI-powered cardiac imaging company- Acquisition of Italian software company that assists clinical diagnostics laboratories manage process flow- Acquisition of a controlling interest in a publicly-traded Vietnamese pharmaceutical company- Acquisition of privately-held Vietnamese pharmaceutical business- Divestiture of pharmaceutical manufacturing operations in Argentina - Post-closing integration of legal entities across North America, South America, Europe and Asia Pacific
Education
University of Wisconsin-Madison
B.S., Molecular Biology
1995 — 1999
University of Wisconsin Law School
J.D., cum laude; Editor-in-Chief, Wisconsin Law Review
2000 — 2003
Skills
- Corporate Law
- Private Equity
- Venture Capital
- Securities
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Mergers
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