About Us > Faculty & Staff > Executive Staff > Brenda Lubrano-Birken

CNSE Vice President for Policy and Regulatory Affairs; CNSE Senior Legal Advisor for Externally Sponsored Programs; FRMC General Counsel; Director, CNSE Office for Technology Innovation and Commercialization

• Honen & Wood, P.C., Albany, NY, 2001-2005 Partner, 2004-05
• Private practice in Michigan and New York, 1995-2001
• B.A., Psychology, University of Michigan, 1990 
• Juris Doctor, Michigan State University College of Law, 1994 
• Admitted to Michigan Bar, 1994
• Admitted to New York Bar, 1998

• Advisory Board, Albany Law School Center for Law & Innovation
• Alliance of Technology and Women: Board of Directors, Secretary
• New York State Bar Association
• State Bar of Michigan

Practice Areas:

• Corporate transactional work, including contract drafting and negotiation, joint ventures, stock and asset acquisitions
• Intellectual property and licensing
• Venture capital and equity-based finance
• Banking, creditors' rights, corporate workouts and reorganizations, and corporate bankruptcy
• Securities law

• Photonics
• MEMS
• Optoelectronic components
• Advanced materials
• Nanoparticles and fluorescent nanoparticles
• Membraneless and related fuel-cells
• Clean energy
• Wafer substrates
• Biomedical sterilizationDrug synthesis
• Recombinant human protein
• Microwave ceramics
• High-performance computing systems
• Wireless, storage and sensor networking

• "(Nano)Technology: Legal Issues and Joint Ventures"
• "Raising Angel and Venture Capital Investment for Emerging Growth Companies" 
• "Forming and Operating Corporations and Limited Liability Companies"
• "Advising Small Business Start-Ups and Larger Companies"
• "What You Need To Know About Doing Business In New York"
• "Loan Workout and Collateral Liquidation in New York"
• "Creditor's Rights and Protection of Security Interests in Bankruptcy"