Life sciences

Our Life Sciences Group brings together our highly regarded specialists in intellectual property, regulatory, corporate and finance, privacy & information and competition. The team has a thorough understanding of the particular needs of pharmaceutical, biotech and medical devices clients, and includes specialist lawyers based in London, Paris, Brussels, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Munich and Manchester.

The Life Sciences Group works with clients at all stages of innovation, from bench to bedside and helps companies to continually 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

Our life sciences lawyers work with our public regulatory lawyers who are highly experienced in judicial reviews and work with regulators within the life sciences sector.

We help companies through from small start-ups with a great idea for development, to multinationals with a range of medical devices being marketed throughout Europe. Download the brochure		Our specialist lawyers find practical solutions to legal problems and help pharma and biotech companies to operate and grow their businesses effectively and compliantly. Download the brochure