A 2-Day Training Course Delivered By
Dr. Roger Cox

Dr. Roger Cox

  • Dr. Roger Cox has 30 years of licensing experience encompassing both big and small pharma/biotech companies.
  • Currently Regional Advisor for UK and Europe with Plexus Ventures, Roger was formerly Executive Director with J&J’s Global Pharma BD Group where he negotiated over 50 commercial licence agreements.

Learn

  1. The skill set required to successfully negotiate licence deals in the pharma-biotech world, to persuade and build consensus.
  2. What you need to prepare and check before starting a negotiation.
  3. The methods for determining value and how to use a financial modeling spreadsheet to improve negotiation outcomes.
  4. Practise negotiating skills in 4 interactive role plays featuring typical Pharma/Biotech licensing situations.
  5. The differences between integrative and distributive negotiation strategies and tools to improve leverage.
  6. The various types of licence agreements used in pharma-biotech, and methods to determine royalty rates and value sharing.

Additional Benefits

  • The role-plays include a variety of negotiation scenarios: Royalty negotiations, term sheet negotiations, etc.
  • To ensure you optimally benefit from the role play sessions with executives from a variety of backgrounds, we purposely limit the audience size to 8 max.

 

Why You Should Attend

The Content: Unlike other negotiation courses, this course is specifically tailored to negotiating commercial licensing deals for pharmaceuticals and related products in the Pharma and Biotech sectors.

The Expert: Roger Cox is an industry veteran and highly regarded in pharma’s BD&L community. Roger’s profile is unique - his 30 years of licensing experience encompasses both big and small pharma/biotech companies as well as government organisations.

The Pharma Licensing Negotiation Course is the only available public training course delivered by Roger Cox on the topic of licensing negotiation.

Agenda of The Pharma Licensing Negotiation Course

For start and end times, please check Dates & Locations below.
 

Day 1

Welcome and Introductions (~30 min)

Negotiation Skills (~1 h)

  • Master-level negotiation skills for Pharma and Biotech and how to develop them
  • Networking, opportunity identification and managing deal flow

Preparation for Negotiation and Value Analysis (~1 h 15 min)

  • Check lists, term sheets and value drivers
  • Financial models and net present value (NPV)
  • Risk adjusted NPV allocation and decision tree analysis
  • Headline Deal Value
  • Influence of goal setting on negotiation outcome
  • Better negotiation
  • Negotiation strategies

Advantages and Pitfalls of Different Negotiation Tools (~30 min)

  • The traded concession
  • The give-away paradox
  • Bundling the not-so-good
  • Using deal breakers & challenging them
  • Expanding choice to get a good result
  • Using timing & time to your advantage
  • Attrition tactics
Lunch Break

Role Play – Preparing to Negotiate (~45 min)

  • Role play exercise: involving the Licensing Director of a pharmaceutical company seeking to license a drug delivery technology for a new chemical entity from a smaller biotech company
  • Discussion and learnings

Negotiation Styles and Presentation Skills (~45 min)

  • Negotiating styles – responses and risks styles
  • Presentation skills and body-language
  • Leadership and using your team

Developing Leverage and Negotiation Tactics (~45 min)

  • Developing negotiation leverage
  • Bargaining and bluffing
  • Delivering the message
  • Managing difficult items and bad news
  • Anchoring and managing expectations
  • Dealing from strength and dealing from weakness
  • Trading and bargaining
  • Marginal gains
  • Structured negotiation tips

Role Play – Term Sheet Assumptions (~2 h: 1 h 15 min on day 1, 45 min on day 2)

  • Bargaining term sheets - preparation, content and negotiation
  • Internal team meeting to agree and input assumptions for spreadsheet and NPV share calculations

End of Day 1

 

Day 2

Licences, Royalties and Milestones (~1 h 30 min)

  • Licences and freedom to operate
  • Value sharing, benchmarking royalty calculation methods
  • Licence fees, milestones and option payments
  • Unexpected consequences

Role Play – Licence Negotiation (~1 h)

  • Role play exercise: meeting to decide strategy and terms to resolve potential infringement of a third party’s Intellectual Property Rights

Role Play – Term Sheet Assumptions (~45 min, continued from day 1)

Lunch Break

Role Play – Term Sheet Negotiation (~1 h 30 min)

  • Role-play exercise: involving two teams negotiating a term sheet covering a licence and manufacturing agreement between a biotech company with a new chemical entity in clinical development and a biopharmaceutical company seeking world-wide rights

Term Sheet Presentations, Feedback & Learnings (~45 min)

  • Analysis of term sheet negotiations
  • Where was the value captured?
  • Identification of value drivers which could have improved outcome
  • Learnings for future negotiations

Critical Success Factors in Contract Negotiation (~45 min)

  • Defining performance and value protection
  • Determining appropriate sanctions
  • Meaning and Interpretation
  • Closure
  • Cross-cultural negotiations and considerations

Course Learnings and Conclusions (~30 min)

Closing

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Learning Methodology

Successfully developing negotiating skills requires practice in real negotiations. Four interactive negotiation sessions are included in the programme as examples of the type of negotiation situation that can arise in Pharma/Biotech licensing. Course participants will be briefed to assume roles as Licensing Executives in pharmaceutical /biotech companies who are engaged in:

  • Negotiation on licences for drug delivery technologies.
  • Internal negotiations to prepare term sheet proposals for regional/global product licences.
  • Licence negotiations to avoid infringement of third party intellectual property rights.
  • Negotiation with third parties for regional/global licences for the clinical development, manufacture and marketing of finished pharmaceutical products where royalties, milestones will be negotiated and NPVs and valuation splits determined.

The exercises include opening contacts and negotiations with third parties, working with colleagues, working with ‘your opposite number’ to solve joint problems and team negotiations with third parties on detailed term sheets. The outcome of the negotiation exercises will be quantified so that participants can benchmark progress in their own personal development as a negotiator.

The course is designed for pharmaceutical licensing professionals who want to hone their skills and improve their negotiation performance to deliver improved value and mitigate risk. Group discussion sessions are also included at the end of each day to address and review questions arising from any part of the 2-day course. Course participants will be provided with copies of the presentations for their own use.

 

One of the most valuable aspects of attending any CELforPharma course is not only being able to have your specific questions answered by a leading expert, but also having the opportunity to share experiences and have in-depth discussions with your international peers.

infoThe maximum audience size of this course is 8 participants.

Who Should Attend?

This practical Pharma/Biotech negotiation course is designed for:

  • Business development and licensing executives wishing to improve their negotiation skills.
  • All other executives working in the Pharma/Biotech sector who are involved in the negotiation process for the licensing or acquisition of pharmaceutical and other healthcare products.

 

Past Participants

Below is a non-exhaustive list of past participants who have benefited from attending this course.

 

Job Title

Company

Country

Strategic Development ManagerAbbottRussian Federation
Business Development ManagerAbbottRussian Federation
Manager In-Licensing InternationalActavisBulgaria
Portfolio Director International CEE/CISActavisSerbia
Associate M&A and Corporate DevelopmentAlmirallSpain
Licensing In Manager CEEAngeliniAustria
General ManagerChugaiGermany
EMEA Director, Market DevelopmentEisaiUnited Kingdom
Global Business DevelopmentFerringUSA
Vice President Oncology Portfolio & MarketingFresenius KabiGermany
Head of R&D LicensingGaldermaFrance
VP, Head of Corporate LicensingGruenenthalGermany
Senior Project Leader (Interventional Oncology)GuerbetFrance
Director Life Cycle Management EMEAJanssenSwitzerland
Senior Director, Head of R&D Quality & Compliance Business DevelopmentJohnson & JohnsonNetherlands
Country Manager MoroccoLEO PharmaMorocco
Senior Manager Business DevelopmentMorphosysGermany
Market Research Manager / Corporate BDOnxeoFrance
Financial Controller / HR / ITProstrakanGermany
Business Development OfficerRatiopharmFinland
Vice President CHC Strategy and Business DevelopmentSanofiFrance
Business Develpment ManagerSanofiItaly
Business Development DirectorServierRussian Federation
Business Development ManagerServierRussian Federation
Pharmacien Business Development ManagerServierRussian Federation
VP, Business Development and New Product PlanningShionogiUnited Kingdom
Project Coordinator and Business Intelligence ManagerTakedaSwitzerland
Senior Alliance ManagerTillotts PharmaSwitzerland
Senior Director, Neurosciences PartneringUCBBelgium
Business Development & Project ManagerVifor PharmaSwitzerland
Business Development & LicensingZambonItaly

 

Testimonials

Dates & Locations

Currently this CELforPharma course is planned to only be held live online (hosted in Zoom).

The start and end times for all below sessions will be:
Day 1: 09:30 - 17:00 CET (Brussels/Amsterdam/Paris)
Day 2: 09:30 - 17:00 CET (Brussels/Amsterdam/Paris)
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  • 20-21 June 2023, live online

  • 26-27 October 2023, live online

  • 12-13 December 2023, live online

Included in the Registration Fee​

  • Access to a small-class (max 8 participants), expert led course in real-time, using an interactive platform for break-out rooms, whiteboard exercises, polling, plenary discussions and chats.
  • Course material, which will be provided to you in both digital format (by email) and in hard copy (by post, so you can make notes during the course).
  • Certificate of attendance signed by the expert and CELforPharma.

 

Group Discounts

Team discounts can be offered to 3 or more delegates from the same company.
Contact Annelies Swaan, Director Business Operations, (aswaan@celforpharma.com) for more details.

 

How to Register

  1. Click the "Register Here" button on this page.
  2. Choose a course date, then fill out your personal details and company / invoicing details.
  3. Choose to pay via bank transfer or by credit card (through a secure payment link, which you will receive together with the invoice).
  4. Click "Confirm Registration". You will be sent an automatic email confirming your registration followed by a personal email containing an invoice and further payment instructions.

For assistance in registering, raising a PO or invoicing, please do not hesitate to contact Kealeigh Steel.
(email: kealeigh.steel@celforpharma.com or call: +32 2 709 01 45)

 

Transfer & Cancellation Policy

Flexible Transfer

  • If a registrant cannot attend the scheduled course, he/she can avoid any cancellation charge by sending a suitable replacement participant.
  • Alternatively, the registrant can transfer once on a “space available” basis at no extra cost, until 3 weeks prior to the event, to another course of the same value held within one year of the original course date.

Registration Cancellation

  • Less than 14 days prior to the course date: registrant liable to pay the full invoiced registration fee.
  • Between 15 and 30 days prior to the course date: registrant liable to pay 50% of the invoiced registration fee.
  • More than 30 days prior to the course date: registrant liable to pay a cancellation fee of € 450 per registrant.
  • If a registrant postpones his/her participation to a future course, and cancels again, no refund can be claimed for registration fees.

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