How to Get Deal Experience Without Having Deal Experience

A well-known Catch-22 in the business world is known as the Permission Paradox — “You can’t get the job without experience, and you can’t get the experience without the job”¹. This dilemma is commonly encountered by life science business development...

Japan Licensing Deals: A look back at 2016, and what to expect in 2017

On December 8th in Tokyo, Locust Walk hosted the 2nd annual “Locust Walk Japan Deal of the Year Award” event. We founded this event, which is co-sponsored by Clarivate Analytics (formerly Thomson Reuters), to celebrate the deals consummated throughout the year by...