Rick A. Kaufman

Mr. Rick A.
Kaufman is Partner at Foley & Lardner LLP (Venture Capital).
He is a vice chair of the firm's Private Equity & Venture Capital Practice.
He is also a member of the Life Sciences Industry Team and the Transactional & Securities Practice.
Mr. Kaufman was a partner with Heller Ehrman LLP before joining Foley in 2008.
Prior to joining Heller Ehrman, Mr. Kaufman's in-house positions included general counsel to Trega Biosciences, Inc.; senior vice president, corporate development and law at Integra LifeSciences Corporation; vice president, secretary, and general counsel at Telios Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; and executive vice president, secretary, and general counsel at Invitron Corporation, a spin-off of Monsanto Company.
Prior to moving in-house, Mr. Kaufman was a partner at Peper, Martin, Jensen, Maichel and Hetlage in St. Louis, Missouri, where he practiced for nine years.
Previously, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Robert E.
Seiler, Chief Justice of the Missouri Supreme Court.
Mr. Kaufman received his law degree from the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis (J.D., 1976) and his baccalaureate degree from the University of Wisconsin – Madison (B.A., 1972).