Mintz's New Women Members

A versatile life sciences patent attorney and IP adviser, Jenny handles a wide array of patent-related matters for US and international clients. She primarily protects innovations involving antibodies, cell therapies, gene editing, small molecule therapeutics, pharmaceutical formulations, and diagnostic agents and assays. In addition to prosecuting patents in the US and many other jurisdictions around the globe, Jenny has extensive experience with IP due diligence for transactions, clearance analyses, licensing agreements, opinion work, and post-grant proceedings. Clients also seek her strategic guidance on the life cycle management of both biological and small molecule products.

Above and Beyond: Jenny has signed up to conduct intake calls in Mandarin for Greater Boston Legal Services’ Asian Outreach Program, a clinic that advises and provides referrals to low-income Asian clients facing a range of legal issues. She also nurtures the careers of junior Associates and Patent Agents by integrating them into client teams and giving them advice throughout engagements.

Rachel serves as a trusted advisor to her clients on a broad range of corporate transactional matters. Her private investment funds practice includes advising emerging and established fund sponsors and investment advisers on matters of fund formation and regulatory compliance. In her VC practice, Rachel regularly represents early and growth stage companies and institutional investors in venture capital financing transactions and counsels clients across the life sciences, clean energy, fintech, and social impact sectors on corporate and securities matters. Using her extensive knowledge of emerging company challenges, she also plays a pivotal role in the formation and operation of start-up incubators and accelerators.

Above and Beyond: Rachel’s achievements and high potential led to her selection for the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity’s 2023 Fellows Program, a prestigious year-long program aimed at training and advancing mid-career attorneys. She also volunteers as a mentor to a number of aspiring attorneys.

Natalie is an accomplished employment litigator and trusted counselor who handles a wide array of employment and labor matters before state and federal courts and administrative agencies. Along with tackling cases involving restrictive covenant agreements, wage and hour laws, and employee claims such as discrimination, sexual harassment, and retaliation, she directs workplace investigations and employee trainings. As a trusted counselor to clients across industries, Natalie also provides guidance on employment and separation agreements, employee classifications, family and medical leaves, and reductions in force.

Above and Beyond: At Mintz, she initiated a pioneering compassionate leave policy that provides paid leave in the event of an employee’s miscarriage or failed fertility treatment, adoption, or surrogacy. Her devotion to public service drives her participation in the firm’s Pro Bono Committee, work on pro bono matters, and membership on the board of an educational organization that serves systemically marginalized students.

In her commercial real estate practice, Ashley serves as a trusted counselor to public and private investors, operators, and developers in a broad range of property transactions. She plays a leading role in complex asset and portfolio purchases and sales, property development, management arrangements, leasing, and financing matters. Her work focuses on assets in the industrial, life sciences, and health care sectors, with an emphasis on income-generating properties, such as hospitality and senior living facilities. Ashley is particularly energized when helping businesses maintain smooth operations amid multilayered deals that involve structuring issues, regulatory matters, and the transfer of personal property.

Above and Beyond: A passionate mentor, Ashley advises students through the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law Alumni–Student Mentorship Program. She also volunteers with the Legal Mentor Network, providing real-world insight into the rewards and challenges of commercial real estate law and helping law students and new attorneys sift through career options.

Mathilda is a multifaceted litigator who advises companies, nonprofit institutions, and prominent individuals on a wide range of business and personal challenges. With a versatile toolkit, Mathilda navigates complex investigations, pre-litigation disputes, and litigation on behalf of her clients, employing strategic discovery tactics and effective advocacy to win cases in and outside of the courtroom. Mathilda’s practice encompasses commercial litigation, probate and fiduciary litigation, white-collar criminal defense, class action defense, and appeals. She represents clients in the pharmaceutical, real estate, insurance, private equity, and higher education sectors, among others.   

Above and Beyond: Deeply dedicated to using her talents to help underserved populations, Mathilda prioritizes pro bono work, particularly on immigration and education issues. Her contributions include partnering on a case that shifted the burden of proof in bond hearings for certain immigrants detained during removal proceedings and litigation concerning admissions criteria for Boston’s highly selective public schools. She has also collaborated on amicus briefs for seminal Supreme Court cases.

Lauren advises clients on complex health care transactions and federal and state regulatory matters. On private equity and strategic deals, she guides sponsors and strategic buyers through complex regulatory schemes related to the acquisition of health care entities, including pharmacies and PBMs, physician practices, long-term care facilities, third-party payors, and health care technology firms. Her regulatory practice focuses on advising pharmacies, PBMs, managed care plans, and other payors on compliance and contracting matters. A former Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) staffer, Lauren is able to provide practical advice and insight into Medicare and Medicaid issues on the deal and regulatory front.

Above and Beyond: Lauren has used her knowledge to give back, including by assisting a team of Mintz attorneys with the development of a national database of state laws restricting abortion rights to be used by clinicians. She also volunteers with a clinic to help seniors enroll in the most appropriate Medicare Part D plan to cover their prescription drugs. 

Leveraging more than 15 years of experience as a bankruptcy and restructuring attorney, Kaitlin advises clients across the credit spectrum on matters arising from corporate financial distress. Her broad practice includes representing institutional investors, lenders, and creditors in insolvency-related litigation and in-and-out-of-court financial restructurings. She regularly represents lenders and indenture trustees in municipal debt matters across multiple industries, including hospitals, retirement communities, and educational institutions. Additionally, Kaitlin shepherds companies and boards through complex restructurings and structures purchases and sales of distressed assets.

Above and Beyond: Using her sharp courtroom and advocacy skills, Kaitlin recently helped lead a pro bono guardianship case integral to an immigrant family’s multiyear odyssey to secure asylum. She is additionally deeply committed to expanding the ranks of women bankruptcy attorneys and sharing knowledge. Along with serving on the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation board for four years, Kaitlin has presented at programs sponsored by the American Bankruptcy Institute and the National Federation of Municipal Analysts.

Kristen leads sensitive and complex litigation on behalf of some of the largest asset management firms and their portfolio companies. Along with handling sophisticated breach of contract, commercial, securities, real estate, bankruptcy, and employment disputes, Kristen also helps clients evaluate potential litigation risk in connection with buy-side and sell-side transactions. Kristen handles federal and state court cases, administrative proceedings, and internal investigations, as well as diligence inquiries from investors and government entities. Recently, she has advised fintech start-ups and biotech companies in partnership-related disputes and civil claims.

Above and Beyond: Kristen’s pro bono work includes assisting nonprofits that serve victims of domestic abuse and fight gender and racial discrimination. Recently, Kristen helped a domestic abuse survivor obtain parole, following years of incarceration for her role in a fatal car accident during her struggle with alcohol and substance abuse. Kristen also advises and works with a nonprofit that helps parents of infants and toddlers dealing with trauma and chronic stress.

When handling patent litigation before the US International Trade Commission (ITC), Catherine draws on her electrical engineering background and courtroom skills she began honing as a junior attorney. With encouragement from senior colleagues, she took her first deposition as a first year Associate and has since deposed and defended fact and expert witnesses in others, made oral arguments, and examined witnesses in numerous cases. She primarily represents clients involved in graphics processing, semiconductor fabrication and technology, and computer architecture, managing complex discovery, leading depositions, and presenting oral arguments. A native Mandarin speaker, Catherine also uses her language skills to assist colleagues with documents and in depositions involving Mandarin-speaking witnesses.

Above and Beyond: Catherine is passionate about mentoring law school students and Associates and was active on the Women’s Associate Subcommittee of the firm’s Women’s Initiative until her promotion. Her pro bono involvement has included conducting intake calls in Mandarin with Greater Boston Legal Services’ Asian Outreach Program and volunteering at Project Citizenship, a nonprofit that provides naturalization services.

A highly accomplished IP trial lawyer and strategist, Vanessa achieves successful results in high-stakes business and IP litigations for clients across the technology, life sciences, biotech, pharmaceutical, medical device, and chemical sectors. She leads patent litigations before US district courts, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Her practice also includes Hatch-Waxman and biosimilar litigation, inter partes reviews, licensing matters, and IP assessment and counseling. Vanessa represents Fortune 500 and 1000 companies, start-ups, and world-leading academic research institutions. She tries cases involving numerous technologies, including cancer treatments, gene therapies, HIV/AIDs treatment, FemTech, printing and Wi-Fi technology, and other treatments for various disorders.

Above and Beyond: Vanessa was appointed to serve on the Intellectual Property Owners Association’s (IPO’s) Amicus Brief Committee, which focuses its efforts on the debate around significant issues in IP law. Vanessa also sits on the Cornell Law School Alumni Executive Board, an advisory body focused on the law school’s strategic plans and the interests of both students and alumni.