John Wehrli
Shareholder
Bio:
Dr. John Wehrli is a shareholder in the San Diego office of Greenberg Traurig, where he leverages 41 years of professional experience as an award winning research scientist, inventor, company founder, public company executive, venture capitalist, and lawyer exclusively in the life sciences industry, having represented over 1,000 life science clients over his 31 year legal career, and has long been recognized as one of the top life science attorneys globally.
Dr. Wehrli has worked on a wide range of bet-the-company deals worth a total of over $134 billion. Two of those deals, for which he served as lead counsel, won the California Life Science Association’s Pantheon award for outstanding partnering deal of the year and another named by the Financial Times as one of the four most innovative corporate deals of the year (across all deal types and industries) in its annual most innovative lawyers report. He was named 2022 Lawyer of the Year in Biotechnology and Life Sciences by Best Lawyers and was named among the top 5 licensing lawyers in California by the Daily Journal in its 2011 Top 25 Biotech Lawyers in California report.