John M. Clerici has joined LeClairRyan as a partner on the firm’s Corporate Services and Government Contracts teams. He will be resident in the national law firm’s Washington, D.C. office.
Clerici has played a significant role in the creation and growth of the public health preparedness sector for nearly two decades, helping large pharmaceutical and emerging biotechnology companies access non-dilutive capital to fund the development of biotechnology for emerging disease and engineered threats. Clerici has assisted more than three dozen companies in obtaining over $4 billion in funding for research, development and procurement of public health countermeasures to the federal government, including the majority of the awards made under Project Bioshield, the federal government’s initiative to prepare the U.S. against a bioterrorist attack.
Clerici was also pivotal in the drafting and passage of the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act), landmark legislation that provides substantial liability protections for makers and distributors of pandemic, epidemic, and bioterrorism countermeasures.
In addition to his work in public health preparedness, Clerici advised the country’s largest provider of privatized military housing to successfully develop and implement its business, legal and government affairs strategy to capture over $6 billion of public-private partnerships with the Department of Defense.
Prior to entering private practice, Clerici was a judge advocate in the U.S. Air Force where, among other assignments, he advised the Air Force Research Laboratory on the procurement of technology from research institutions throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. Clerici has appeared as a military law analyst on the Fox News Channel and MSNBC before national audiences.
A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (J.D) and The Catholic University of America (B.A.), Clerici is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia.
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