Life sciences

Our Life Sciences Group brings together our highly regarded specialists in intellectual property, regulatory, corporate and finance, data privacy and anti-trust. The team has a thorough understanding of the particular needs of its pharmaceutical, biotech and medical devices clients, and includes specialist lawyers based in Brussels, Hamburg and London.

The Life Sciences Group works with clients at all stages of innovation, from bench to bedside and helps companies continually to develop and grow their businesses within the strict regulatory requirements that can apply in this sector. During the various stages of growth our lawyers help life sciences clients with:

making advantageous deals with respect to their valuable intellectual property rights, whether through research agreements, licences, collaborations or co-marketing arrangements
devising patent strategies based on defending a client’s own patents and/or challenging a competitor’s patents and/or developing strategies to avoid infringing third parties’ patents
the interpretation of and compliance with regulations
interactions with competent authorities, including challenging their decisions
data privacy issues around the handling of sensitive clinical trial data
investments made in their companies, whether through funding rounds, flotations or mergers and acquisitions. In these matters our specialist regulatory and intellectual property lawyers work closely with our corporate lawyers who have experience of transactions totalling over $1 billion in this sector alone
negotiating agreements for the supply of materials, manufacturing of products and tooling, and the distribution of their products worldwide
regulation of chemicals (REACH) and of electrical equipment (WEEE and RoHS)
avoiding the infringement of competition law, whether through agreements, concerted practices or mergers and acquisitions