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Pamela Emenheiser

Partner

Office: Grand Rapids
Direct: 616/336-6547
Fax: 616/336-7000
Email:pemenheiser@varnumlaw.com
Assistant: Melissa Babb    send email
Direct: 616/336-6633
Assistant: Polly Larsen    send email

Experience

Pamela Emenheiser helps technology start up and latter stage companies grow their businesses through effective use of their most important assets, including employees, capital and intellectual property. One of Pamela's technical specialties is clinical research and the protection of human subjects. She has deep experience in securities and private placements as well as international law. Pamela chairs the firm's Life Sciences Industry Group.

Education

  • University of Michigan Law School
    Ann Arbor, Michigan
    J.D., 1992
  • Calvin College
    Grand Rapids, Michigan
    B.A., English and German, 1989
  • Goethe Institut Berlin
    Berlin, Germany
    Diploma, Grundstufe III, 1987

Professional Activities

  • American Health Lawyers Association
  • MichBio, (Legal and Intellectual Property Committee, Chair, 2007 - Present)
  • Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R)
  • Aquinas College International Business Advisory Committee (2004 - Present)

Community Activities

Pamela is also active in the community, having served as a board member of Inner City Christian Federation, a nonprofit corporation that provides affordable housing to the economically disadvantaged, for many years. Pamela also completed the Leadership Grand Rapids program through the Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce in 2001.