Mary B Boyle has been promoted to partner in McDermott Will & Emery’s Silicon Valley, California, office. Her practice focuses on the areas of intellectual property litigation in the life sciences and pharmaceutical industries. She has broad experience in litigating commercial disputes and providing advice to investment banks and companies in the biopharmaceutical and high-technology segments.

M Todd Hales has been promoted to partner in McDermott Will & Emery’s Orange County, California, office. His practice focuses on strategic intellectual property portfolio prosecution, management, and counseling. His practice also involves conducting due diligence investigations in connection with funding, acquisition, and merger transactions, preparation of legal opinions on patent validity and infringement, and preparing portfolio and landscape evaluations and prelitigation analyses.

Matthew McCloskey has been promoted to partner in McDermott Will & Emery’s Boston office. His practice focuses on US and foreign patent prosecution, patent portfolio management and trademark prosecution, in addition to analysis and opinion work for patent validity, infringement and patentability issues. He also supports patent infringement litigation, intellectual property licensing, and intellectual property due diligence for corporate mergers and acquisitions.