Sandra G. Stoneman
Partner
Duane Morris LLP
30 South 17th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103-4196
USA
Phone: +1 215 979 1360
Fax: +1 215 689 4420
Email:
SGStoneman@duanemorris.com
Sandra G. Stoneman is a partner whose practice focuses on advising emerging growth companies and venture capital and private equity investors in the life sciences and technology industries. Ms. Stoneman works with her clients in matters relating to forming companies, structuring and negotiating financing, issues of corporate governance, licensing agreements, joint ventures and other strategic transactions, as well as mergers, acquisitions and divestitures.
In 2008, Ms. Stoneman was selected as a Lawyer on the Fast Track by The Legal Intelligencer. She also was named a Pennsylvania Rising Star in 2005, 2006 and 2007. Rising Stars are chosen by their peers as being among the top up-and-coming Pennsylvania lawyers.
Ms. Stoneman is a 1997 magna cum laude graduate of Temple University School of Law, where she was an articles editor for the Temple Law Review, and is a summa cum laude graduate of the State University of New York at Binghamton.
Areas of Practice
- Venture Capital
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Licensing/Strategic Alliances
- Securities Law
- Business Law and Finance
Representative Matters
- Represented Marinus Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a neuroactive steroid developer, in its $21 million Series C financing from U.S. venture capital firm Domain Associates, LLC, Russian state-owned investment fund RusnanoMedInvest, and co-investors Canaan Partners, Sofinnova Ventures and Foundation Medical Partners.
- Counsel to emerging businesses in structuring, negotiating and drafting venture capital and other private equity financing arrangements and related corporate governance, executive compensation, and securities law compliance issues.
- Counsel to technology and life science companies in the structure, negotiation and drafting of various types of licensing and other technology agreements, and joint venture arrangements.
- Counsel to buyers and sellers in domestic and cross-border acquisition and divestiture transactions, including assistance with structuring transactions from business, regulatory and tax perspectives.
- Counsel to public companies in connection with securities regulation, reporting and financing activities.
- Counsel to private equity funds in structuring and making investments in portfolio companies and real estate transactions and preparing offering materials and complying with securities laws in connection with capital raising transactions.
Professional Activities
- Vice Chair of IMPACT 2011
- Epilepsy Foundation of Southeastern Pennsylvania
- Member, Board of Directors - Graduate of Leadership, Inc.
- Professional Women's Roundtable
- Member, Advisory Board - Former Member of Advisory Panel for Delaware Valley Chapter of NAUBO's ATHENA PowerLinks program
Admissions
- Pennsylvania
Education
- Temple University School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude, 1997
Honors and Awards
- Named one of Pennsylvania's Lawyers on the Fast Track by The Legal Intelligencer, August 2008
- Named a Super Lawyer Rising Star by the publishers of Law and Politics magazine, 2005-2007
Selected Publications
- "Judicial and Congressional Back-Door Methods that Limit the Effect of Roe v. Wade," 70 Temple Law Review 633, 1997
Selected Speaking Engagements
- Frequent lecturer at The Women's Business Development Center JumpStart panel programs
- Panelist, "Power of Persuasion" event hosted by Entrepreneurs' Forum, May 2008
- Speaker, "Choice of Entity," Wharton Venture Initiation Program Presentation, February 2008
- Panelist, "How to Become Fundable," lunch panel discussion at New Jersey Technology Council Venture Fair, March 2006
