Casarine (Cassie) Chong is Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, Transactions for Bristol Myers Squibb. Cassie and her organization provide strategic and business-enabling support of all significant transactions, including mergers & acquisitions, venture investments and strategic licenses and collaborations, as well as support for global alliance management and strategic corporate and operational contracting. Cassie is a member of the BMS Law Department senior leadership team and the Strategy & Business Development senior leadership team, and Executive Sponsor of the BMS Law Department’s Pro Bono Committee. Cassie has strong legal experience in the biopharma industry. She was previously with AbbVie Inc., where she was the Section Head of R&D, Alliance Management and Transactions, and a member of the AbbVie Legal Diversity and Inclusion Committee. Cassie began her career in the life sciences at Deloitte Consulting as a consultant in the healthcare strategy group and her in-house legal career on the deal team at Abbott Laboratories. Prior to Abbott, Cassie was a Corporate & Securities associate at the Chicago office of Mayer Brown LLP.