Business Development & Licensing

Unlock Strategic Partnerships

Streamline your business development and licensing strategies, using impactful solutions that support your innovation and partnership goals.

Why choose Evaluate?

Find out why leading pharmaceutical and biotech companies trust Evaluate to build world-class partnerships.

Identify strategic partnership opportunities

Monitor the innovation landscape and competitor activity to uncover high-potential licensing opportunities that align with your business objectives

Streamline due diligence and deal evaluation

Access in-depth deal information, enabling you to assess the value and risk of potential partnerships with reliable, data-backed insights

Enhance negotiation strategies

Actionable intelligence on licensing terms, partner portfolios, and industry benchmarks, ensuring you secure the most favorable deals and maximize business growth

Compare licensing deals with industry benchmarks

Ensure competitive positioning and maximize the value of your partnerships

How Evaluate Helps

Navigate due diligence complexity and dealmaking data

Are you exploring opportunities for alliances, in-licensing, or acquisition? Use Evaluate’s benchmarking and negotiation tools to understand the dealmaking landscape, with a depth of historical data for context. Easily compare metrics to validate decisions on partnerships, R&D strategies, and deal value. Use detailed data on comparable deals to structure and negotiate from a position of confidence.

Access insights that span therapy areas, mechanisms of action, and technologies. With a comprehensive perspective, you have the edge needed to secure higher deal values and drive R&D success.

Identify the Assets That Boost Your Pipeline

Screening and valuing pharma assets is a complex business and making sense of all the data points can be a real challenge. Our solutions provide an accurate, impartial, and timely view of pharma asset potential. Forecast product-level risk, costs, and timelines to make key commercial decisions with confidence.

Check your assumptions, conduct deep due diligence, and assess the value of a potential target or your own portfolio with objectivity. Whether you are looking to expand your product pipelines or enter new markets, find out how our asset screening tools can inform your strategic decision-making.

Use Precision Profiling to Seize Opportunities and Control Risk

Tracking potential partners and acquisition targets helps you seize opportunities and manage portfolio risk. But company profiling can be complex and time-consuming. As your team sifts through multiple datasets, how do you find timely insights and avoid bias?

Our solutions enable you to find and track the right companies to strengthen your growth strategy. Easily track financials, pipeline developments, M&A activity, and more. Validate potential investments with confidence and strategically prioritize your portfolio for the highest return.

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Strategic consulting powered by data and expertise

Our consulting and analytics teams work alongside you to solve complex commercial and strategic challenges. Combining Evaluate’s trusted data with Norstella’s global expertise, we deliver tailored insights that help you make smarter, faster, and more confident business decisions.

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Consulting Leads

Our experts will help you identify the tools and insights that support your strategic, commercial, or investment priorities.

Ben Folwell, PhD

Director & Business Development & Licensing Lead

Ben specializes in quantitative analysis, leading projects covering buy and sell side due diligence, deal benchmarking, pipeline tracking, competitor analysis and product forecasting across a broad range of indications and markets, with an increasing focus on rare diseases. Recent work has included building prioritization models that can be used to identify in-licensing opportunities, out licensing partners, attractive indications, or technologies.​ Ben has authored multiple peer-reviewed journal articles and industry standard guideline documents.

Paul Verdin, PhD

Senior Vice President and Head of Consulting & Analytics

Paul leads the Evaluate’s consulting and analytics business, overseeing strategic advisory engagements across portfolio strategy, asset strategy, competitive intelligence, forecasting, valuation, and BD&L, working with clients across the global pharma and biotech ecosystem.

Paul brings extensive experience spanning academic research and life sciences consulting, supporting organizations ranging from early-stage biotech companies to large pharmaceutical corporate strategy teams. His work focuses on helping clients make evidence-based decisions across the product lifecycle, from pipeline prioritization through to commercial strategy and investment decision-making.

Mark Lansdell, PhD

Director and Asset & Portfolio Strategy Practice Lead

Mark leads client engagements focused on asset strategy, portfolio prioritization, opportunity assessment, forecasting and valuation, and development strategy across pharma and biotech portfolios. Mark brings over 25 years of biopharma and life sciences experience, having worked across academia, large pharma, and consulting roles. His background includes hands-on experience as a medicinal chemist, followed by senior analytical and advisory positions supporting strategic decision-making in R&D and commercial planning.

Kelly Chamberlain, PhD

Partner​, Market Intelligence

As a neuroscientist, consultant and commercial leader, Kelly brings more than 16 years of experience in the life sciences sector. She partners with insights, analytics, and commercial strategy teams to transform how pharmaceutical organizations capture and operationalize market intelligence. At Evaluate, Kelly focuses on creative solutioning, bringing together life science consultants, data scientists, and subject‑matter experts to build custom intelligence programs and products that leverage the full breadth of Norstella’s assets, including gold-standard forecasting, real‑world data, market access insights, and expert journalistic intelligence. With expertise in competitive landscape analysis, tech-enabled secondary monitoring, primary research, and comprehensive conference coverage, her work supports translation of complex market signals into clear, actionable insights. Kelly holds a PhD in Neuroscience from Georgetown University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS).

Markella Kordoyanni, MA

Director, Consulting & Analytics

Markella brings 20 years of industry and consulting experience, with deep knowledge and expertise in oncology, rare disease and ophthalmology. She specializes in CI landscaping projects in specialty indications and has led our largest CI monitoring projects since 2020. She has led Norstella’s largest conference coverage engagements with Top 10 Pharma clients and brings on-the-ground, secondary and primary CI expertise. She holds an MBA from Baruch College and a master’s in biotechnology from Columbia University. 

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