Healthcare & Life Sciences Practice
Our healthcare and life sciences team provides a full range of legal advice to innovative pharmaceutical, medical device and biotechnology companies and industry investors at every stage of the product life cycle, from intellectual property protections to commercial transactions and M&A. A number of our partners and lawyers have both legal and technical qualifications in the life sciences (including biochemistry, medical biochemistry and industrial biotechnology) including some who were practising scientists prior to joining the legal profession. We are further supported by a team of technical executives with qualifications ranging from biotechnology and chemical engineering to mechanical engineering. We also provide our clients with a broad range of regulatory advice, covering such diverse topics as marketing authorizations and post-market surveillance, competition matters, governmental healthcare and procurement programs, trade controls, and anti-bribery and corruption compliance.
Our lawyers also act for healthcare clients around the world, including hospitals and health systems, clinics, health insurers, academic medical centres and retail pharmacies on a wide variety of regulatory, transactional and litigation matters. Our life sciences, healthcare, pharmaceuticals and medical device litigators have extensive trial experience, as well as the industry knowledge to skilfully handle disputes at the local, national and international level.
The following are some of the matters this practice encompasses:
- Intellectual Property and Technology including patents, industrial designs, pharmaceutical data exclusivity, plant variety protection, R&D agreements, licensing and technology transfer
- Litigation, Arbitration, Mediation and other Dispute Resolution
- All aspects of contentious and non-contentious professional and medical malpractice issues
- Representation in disciplinary proceedings before healthcare regulators
- Medical malpractice claims in court
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Product Liability
- Product Recalls
- Product-Related Legal Issues including registration and compliance issues for pharmaceuticals, medical devices, food products, cosmetics, pesticides and herbicides
- Regulatory Counseling
- Special Tax and Specific Tax-Related Matters
- Privacy and Cybersecurity
- Antitrust Counseling
- Fraud and Abuse Counseling, Investigations and Defense
- Global Anti-Corruption