Samuel Black

Director Business Development at Merck

Speaker

Sam Black is a Business Development & Licensing professional at Merck with 8+ years of life sciences experience in Europe, APAC and the US. He has executed numerous transactions, leading international, cross-functional, project teams on negotiations primarily across oncology, immuno-oncology, neurology, and immunology. He has broad experience across deal types and structures (e.g. in and out-licensing of assets and technologies, collaboration agreements, option agreements, asset acquisitions, academic partnerships, combination agreements, and companion diagnostic agreements) including corporate components of such transactions (e.g.: equity considerations), up to deal values of $2B+. Sam holds a MPhil in Bioscience Enterprise from the University of Cambridge and a MEng in Biochemical Engineering with Management from University College London.