Bianca Poehailos

Associate

Overview

Bianca M. Poehailos is a business attorney in Holland & Knight's Stamford office and a member of the firm's Corporate Services Team. Ms. Poehailos focuses her practice on representing public and private companies as well as private equity funds and their portfolio companies in mergers, acquisitions and dispositions, financings and other commercial transactions. She also represents clients in a wide variety of corporate governance and general corporate matters.

Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Ms. Poehailos was a summer associate in the firm's Stamford office. She also worked as a legal intern in the legal department of a public company.

While in law school, Ms. Poehailos served as a member of the Connecticut Law Review, Negotiation and Dispute Resolution Society, and Women Law Students' Association (WLSA). She also participated in the school's Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship Law Clinic, where she guided clients through various copyright and trademark issues.

Ms. Poehailos' representative matters include:

  • Represented a private equity-backed clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on ocular drug development in its sale to a publicly traded ophthalmic pharmaceutical and medical technology company focused on developing and commercializing novel therapies for rare ophthalmic diseases

Credentials

Education
  • University of Connecticut School of Law, J.D., with honors
  • University of Connecticut, B.A., Political Science and English, magna cum laude
Bar Admissions/Licenses
  • Connecticut
Honors & Awards
  • CALI Excellence for the Future Award, Legal Research and Writing, University of Connecticut School of Law, 2020
  • Richard W. Davies Scholarship, University of Connecticut School of Law, 2021

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