Sponsors

Bank Hapoalim New York Branches offer full-service commercial banking to meet the financial needs of middle-market businesses looking for expert financial solutions.

We provide a full range of commercial banking services, corporate credit, and investment services including trading in derivatives, FX and brokerage services as well as a complete suite of cash management products and online banking. The New York Branch also offers its customers FDIC deposit insurance.

As part of Bank Hapoalim B.M., the New York Branches benefit from extensive resources, and the financial strength of a leading global banking institution. Israeli companies as well as American companies with assets in Israel can use collateral held in Israel to open credit lines at the New York Branches and vice versa. Visit us at www.hapoalimusa.com

Boston MedTech Advisors provides comprehensive and practical business services leveraging its Principals and other team members' unique perspective of the medical technology and healthcare industry and their understanding of the challenges companies and providers face in developing, commercializing or utilizing medical technology. We understand the complex issues confronting manufacturers, marketers and providers in the highly competitive and continuously evolving healthcare industry, and we draw on our extensive experience to help our clients and partners during each phase of the business cycle. Beginning with the early evaluation of the idea, through the development and subsequent commercialization of the product or service, Boston MedTech Advisors provides focused, comprehensive and cost effective solutions to our customers' challenges. See how we can help you at www.bmtadvisors.com

Brandeis International Business School (IBS) provides a transformational educational experience to an exceptional and culturally diverse student body, enabling our students to become principled leaders of global companies and public institutions throughout the world.  We teach cutting-edge theory, immerse students in international experiences, and connect them to best practice in business and policy. Graduates leave Brandeis IBS with an appreciation of the critical role that ethical business practices and community engagement play in society.  Our highly respected faculty provides a rigorous and relevant education across four degree programs, and our four centers and institutes extend opportunities beyond the classroom to help students prepare for leadership roles in the global economy. Further, IBS has launched regional initiatives, including the Brandeis Israel Business and Innovation Initiative, which is hosting the NEIBC Life Sciences Summit. Learn more about our school, programs, centers, and initiatives at www.brandeis.edu/global.

Burns & Levinson LLPrepresents companies, institutions and individuals in the life sciences industry, including medical device, biotechnology and  pharmaceutical companies, venture capital firms and private foundations, investment banks, health care providers, scientists and medical professionals. Our representation of the life sciences community includes those in the New England area as well as across the country and internationally, with special interest and experience in Israel, Canada,  China and Europe. We provide a broad range of services, among them technology and product licensing, manufacturing and supply agreements, co-production agreements, strategic partnering (including joint venture and development agreements), corporate finance, tax, public offerings and private placements, SEC compliance, mergers and acquisitions, real estate, intellectual property (IP) prosecution and litigation (including patent and trademark prosecution and litigation),  IP due diligence, audits and opinions, analyses of competitor IP and strategic IP portfolio development, as well as labor and employment and HIPAA issues. In addition, and as in many industries, quality relationship building often means the difference between triumph and defeat, therefore we work hard to help our clients forge the relationships and contacts necessary for success.  With over 125 lawyers and offices in Boston, Providence and New York, Burns & Levinson is large enough to provide the sophisticated representation required by those in the life sciences industry, yet small enough to provide direct partner-level, proactive advice in a very responsive manner.  To us, every client is an important client. For more information visit www. burnslev.com

Combined Jewish Philanthropies (CJP), Greater Boston’s Jewish Federation, brings together the people, partners and resources to fulfill the most important needs and aspirations of our community. Our strategic priorities are to build communities of caring and social justice, strengthen Israel and overseas partnerships, and engage the next generation in Jewish life. To learn more about our local efforts to enhance the Jewish community, please visit www.cjp.org

The Consulate General of Israel to New England is the official representative of the State of Israel to New England. We serve as the liaison between the residents of New England and the State of Israel.  Through the fields of academia, culture, politics, economy, press and public diplomacy, we promote knowledge and understanding of Israel. The Consulate's district encompasses Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.  To learn more about all we have to offer, please refer to boston.mfa.gov.il

Faber Daeufer & Rosenberg provides corporate and transactional counsel exclusively to clients in the drug and life sciences industries.  FDR is differentiated from other firms by the depth of our expertise (developed from our exclusive focus on providing transactional counsel to companies in the life sciences), and by our creative problem-solving and professional judgment (based on the experiences that all of our senior lawyers have had working "in house" for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies (with legal, business development and/or executive management responsibilities)).  FDR works with over 350 companies, research institutions and investors in the life sciences located throughout the world, and has regularly been involved with cross-border financing, acquisition and licensing transactions with and for Israeli entrepreneurs, academic institutions and companies.  Shortly after our firm was founded, we were pleased to host the Chief Scientist at our offices in Waltham for a talk about increasing opportunities these kinds of cross-border collaboration.  Please visit us at http://www.fdrpc.com.

Goodwin Procter LLP is one of the nation’s leading law firms with 850 lawyers serving clients across the globe through offices in Boston, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New York, San Diego, San Francisco, Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C. The firm’s Life Sciences lawyers provide dedicated, industry-focused representation, with expertise in corporate law, FDA counseling, strategic alliances and intellectual property law, to life sciences companies of all stages, from start-up through mature public company. Our attorneys combine legal acumen, in-depth industry experience and scientific capabilities across all biological, chemical and medical technologies to deliver outstanding results. With more than 20 PhDs on our team, we understand the science that supports this industry. For more information about Goodwin Procter's Life Sciences practice, please visit http://www.goodwinprocter.com/Practices/Tech-Companies-and-Life-Sciences/Life-Sciences.aspx.

The Israel Economic Mission provides a direct link between the Israel and U.S. business and financial communities. Our goal is to manage the Government of Israel's U.S. Dollar denominated debt, expand bilateral trade and investment and provide the timely information that executives in both countries need to conduct business together. Visit us at www.israeleconomicmission.com

Greenberg Traurig, LLP is an international, full-service law firm with approximately 1800 attorneys serving clients from more than 30 offices in the United States, Europe and Asia. In the U.S., the firm has more offices than any other firm among the Top 10 on The National Law Journal’s 2009 NLJ 250. In the U.K., the firm operates as Greenberg Traurig Maher LLP. Greenberg Traurig has a strong Israel Practice Group representing numerous Israeli life science companies.

Greenberg Traurig’s Life Sciences Group advises clients ranging from start-ups to large multinational public companies and not-for-profit care providers, as well as investors, venture capital funds, investment banks and public agencies. Our attorneys work closely with clients, providing innovative legal counsel to help them achieve their objectives – from discovery through product marketing. We handle transactions and litigation involving intellectual property (IP), patents, regulatory, governmental affairs and corporate matters. By bringing together attorneys from the Greenberg Traurig’s governmental affairs/regulatory, health care, and IP practices, we come to the table with extensive hands-on experience with the many business and legal issues surrounding products regulated by the FDA. For additional information, please visit our website

Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company combines the innovative science of a leading American biopharmaceutical company with the global assets – both intellectual and fiscal – of Japan's largest pharmaceutical company. We are focused exclusively in oncology to improve the treatment of cancer around the world.  Millennium aspires to cure cancer and delivers extraordinary medicines to patients with cancer worldwide through science, innovation and passion. Learn more about us at  www.mlnm.com

Mintz Levin is an AmLaw 100 firm comprised of 450 attorneys across 15 distinct practice areas.  Applying a cross-disciplinary team approach to a number of core industries, we bring attorneys from many diverse yet complementary practice areas together to address the rapidly changing legal and regulatory requirements of various industries, including life sciences, technology and communications, energy and clean technology, real estate, financial services and insurance, health care, hospitality and construction, and retail and consumer products, among others. Mintz Levin’s Life Sciences practice represents biotechnology, medical device, and pharmaceutical companies, venture capital firms and investment banks, as well as research institutes and institutions of higher education located throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia, and the Middle East in a broad range of transactional, regulatory, counseling, and intellectual property matters.  The firm’s eight offices are strategically located to meet the evolving needs of our clients. In addition to our seven domestic office locations (Boston, New York, Washington, Stamford, Los Angeles, Palo Alto and San Diego), Mintz Levin has an office in London and an affiliate relationship in Israel.  For more information on Mintz Levin’s Life Sciences practice, please visit http://www.mintz.com/industries/3/Life_Sciences.

Polaris Venture Partners is a partnership of experienced venture capital investors and technology executives. Our mission is to identify and invest in seed, first round, and early stage technology and life science businesses with exceptional promise and help them grow into sustainable, market-leading companies. In addition, Polaris is committed to providing growth equity and shareholder liquidity to established companies in the technology, healthcare, manufacturing, media, communications, and business services sectors. As a national venture capital firm with offices in the high-tech centers of Boston and Seattle, we’re able to invest in businesses throughout the United States and around the world. The firm has over $3 billion under management and current investments in more than 100 companies. Visit us at www.polarisventures.com

Sleep HealthCenters is a network of specialized sleep medicine centers and the largest provider of such services in New England. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Boston, Sleep HealthCenters has 24 locations in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Arizona. Sleep HealthCenters is staffed by board-certified clinicians and accredited by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM).

Known for high-quality, exceptional care, Sleep HealthCenters’ sleep labs and clinics are staffed by board-certified sleep specialists and experts in the field of sleep medicine. Sleep HealthCenters provides complete, comprehensive care for the diagnosis and treatment of all sleep disorders. At each center, patients receive physician evaluation and consultation, diagnostic testing, initiation of treatment, as well as long-term follow-up care. Learn more at www.sleephealth.com.