WHO’S WHO IN LAW – SANFORD J. HILLSBERG

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SANFORD J. HILLSBERG, 63

FIRM: TroyGould PC

LAW SCHOOL: Harvard Law School

SELECTED CLIENTS: CytRx Corp., ImmunoCellular Therapeutics Ltd., RXi Pharmaceuticals Corp.

Biggest Case: Representing Mead Corp. in contesting a $1 billion-plus hostile takeover bid by Occidental Petroleum.

Best Career Moment: Organizing and later representing Medco Research Inc., which successfully developed major cardiovascular drugs, became a New York Stock Exchange-listed company and was sold in a major transaction to King Pharmaceuticals.

Worst Career Moment: Watching the 1986 Tax Reform Act abruptly end my then-principal practice of real estate syndication law.

Highlight of Past Year: Representing ImmunoCellular Therapeutics in intellectual property, equity financing and agreements with 25 medical centers in preparation for a trial of its brain tumor vaccine that is now under way.

The Secret to Closing a Deal: Understanding and addressing the spoken and unspoken objectives of the parties on the other side.

If I Weren’t an Attorney: I would like to run a pharmaceutical company developing new medicines for major illnesses.

My Colleagues Don’t Know: About my keen interest in the aerospace field and manned space flight.

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