Helga L. Leftwich

Helga is a partner and member of the firm’s Executive Committee. She advises early-stage and established companies on corporate, securities and transactional matters over a broad range of industries, including the biotech, medical device, pharmaceutical, advanced materials, software and healthcare services industries.  Helga’s areas of specialization include corporate, venture capital and other equity and debt financings, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, equity and executive compensation and securities law.  Over the course of her career, Helga has represented a range of clients in connection with their initial public offerings and has advised both public and private companies on a wide range of corporate and securities law matters.

After beginning her legal career with Kilpatrick Stockton LLP in Raleigh, N.C., Helga joined Hutchison when it was formed in 1996.

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Recognition, Affiliations & Memberships

  • Best Lawyers in America, recognized annually since 2005
  • AV Rated, Martindale-Hubbell
  • Board of Directors and member of the Executive Committee, United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County, 2001 to 2010
  • Member, Board of Directors, Executive Committee and Compensation Committee, Council of Entrepreneurial Development (CED) 
  • Co-Chair, Practice Enhancement Committee, CED Venture Conferences, 2002 and 2003
  • Conference Co-Chair, CED Biotech Conference, 2003
  • Chair, Company Recruitment Committee,  CED Venture Conference, 2004
  • Chair, Angel Investor Retreat Steering Committee, CED Venture Conference, 2007
  • Company Recruitment Committee, SEBIO Investor Forum, 2009, 2010
  • Charter Member, TiE Carolinas
  • Member, Board of Directors, NC Biofuels Center
  • Member, Advisory Board, Business Leaders Exchange
  • Member, North Carolina Museum of Art Business Friends
  • Member, Business Law and Science and Technology Sections, American Bar Association
  • Member, Executive Committee, Business Law Section Council, NC Bar Association, 2002-2003  
  • Member, Technology Committee, Wake County Bar Association

Education

  • B.A., magna cum laude, Duke University, 1974
  • M.S.L.S., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1977
  • J.D., high honors, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1993 (Editor-in-Chief, North Carolina Law Review, 1992-1993)

Admissions

  • North Carolina
  • Aldagen, Inc.

    Sale of assets to Cytomedix, Inc.

  • Covis Pharma S.a.r.l.

    Acquisition of approved products from GlaxoSmithKline

  • Radar Find Corporation

    Sale to Tele-tracking Technologies, Inc

  • EpiEp, Inc.

    Note and Warrant Financing

  • Wireless Infrastructure Partners

    Acquisition of PEG Bandwith, LLC

  • Sciquest

    Initial Public Offering

  • Farragut Systems

    Purchase of Division from Hart Interactive

  • Alpheon

    Purchase of Network Management Partners

  • Relativity Technologies, Inc.

    Sale to Micro Focus, Inc.

  • Bay Mountain

    Acquired by Peak 10

  • Brightdoor Systems

    Preferred Stock Financing

  • Ercole Biotech

    Acquired by AVI BioPharma

  • Artus Labs

    Preferred Stock Financing

  • Liposcience

    Preferred Stock Financing

  • Cardinal Health

    Sales of certain assets to Adams Respiratory Therapeutics

  • Southern Assisted Living

    Sale of Assets to BLC Acquisitions

  • Synthematix

    Sale of Assets to Symyx

  • Trimeris

    Initial Public Offering

  • Southern Assisted Living

    Sale and Leaseback of 30 assisted living facilities to Healthcare REIT

  • Pozen

    Initial Public Offering

  • Southern Assisted Living

    Purchase of 29 assisted living facilities from Hunt Assisted Living