Faith L. Charles

Practices

• Corporate Transactions & Securities
• International Trade & Customs
• Life Sciences

Professional Experience

Faith is a partner in the firm's Corporate Transactions & Securities practice group and the leader of the firm's Life Sciences group. She focuses her practice on corporate, commercial and securities matters, including strategic transactions and corporate structuring.

For over 20 years, Faith has handled a variety of complex corporate transactions including public and private equity and debt financings, private placements, public offerings, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances, and venture capital financing both domestically and internationally. She also has experience representing biotechnology and medical device companies in matters related to technology licensing transactions , sponsored research, follow-on offerings, PIPE financing, and assisting public companies in going private.

Primary industries of her clients have included public and private start-ups and late-stage companies, underwriters and placement agents, as well as life science, biotechnology, internet and high technology companies, wholesale, retail and investment banking companies.

Faith was named a BTI Client Service All-Star in 2006 and 2007.

Faith is admitted to practice in the state of New York.

Education

• George Washington University Law Center, J.D., 1986
• Barnard College, B.A., 1983, cum laude

• Hebrew