Kent S. Bernard


Fordham University School of Law
140 West 62nd Street
New York, NY 10023 		Email: Kent.Bernard@gmail.com
Telephone: 203-259-7386

Job Experience

Kent Bernard brings a unique perspective to antitrust, healthcare and the impact of antitrust on medical and pharmaceutical R&D, topics on which he has practiced, spoken and written.

For over 30 years Mr. Bernard held a series of increasingly responsible in-house legal positions, retiring at the end of 2007 as Vice President & Assistant General Counsel of Pfizer Inc. and Deputy Managing Partner of the Pfizer Legal Division.

  Mr. Bernard’s responsibilities have ranged widely, from helping to acquire and then being the General Counsel of Schneider Medintag, a maker of sophisticated interventional cardiology devices that grew to become the most profitable company within the Pfizer Medical Devices group, to working on matters across the parent company spectrum including:

Mergers & Acquisitions: Planning, structuring and implementing worldwide antitrust and competition law clearances for some of the largest acquisitions in the pharmaceutical industry;

International: Establishing direct relations with competition authorities in the U.S., the EU, and elsewhere; setting up a worldwide network of law firms; providing and coordinating worldwide legal support for marketing and other programs.

Litigation and Government Investigations: Handling responses to U.S. and foreign government investigations; running major antitrust cases;

    Government Affairs: Setting up and running, in conjunction with Pfizer Government Affairs, an outreach program to the U.S. State Attorneys General.  Also working with Government Affairs personnel on Federal legislative matters;

Training Other Lawyers – Organizing and running workshops for non-antitrust lawyers, teaching them to apply antitrust concepts to the reality that they would face, and then following up with them when issues arose.

Mr. Bernard is a 1972 graduate of Colgate University, and a magna cum Laude 1975 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School where he was an Articles Editor of the Law Review.  He began his career in Philadelphia as an attorney in private practice.  He then went in-house, and in 1980, joined the Legal Division at Pfizer.

1980 – 2008  Pfizer Inc. , New York, NY  (retired as Vice President & Assistant General Counsel)

1978- 1980 William H. Rorer, Inc.,   Fort Washington, PA
 
1975 – 1978 Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, Philadelphia, PA

Education

University of Pennsylvania Law School, J.D., 1975, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, Articles Editor University of Pennsylvania Law Review.

Colgate University, B.A., 1972, cum laude, high honors in philosophy, Phi Beta Kappa.