Taylor Wessing advises PanOpSys Limited on a $5.25 million Series A funding with Quester

08-Mar-2006  |  Corporate, Employment & Pensions, Intellectual Property, Life Sciences & Healthcare

The venture capital group at European law firm, Taylor Wessing, has advised PanOpSys Limited, a medical diagnostics company focusing on rapid quantitative detection of disease markers, on the raising of $5.25 million following a Series A funding from Quester.

Quester is a market leader in identifying robust technologies at an early stage and PanOpSys is the latest in a series of investments in which Quester has provided Series A funding to spin-out companies, with another recent investment being Perpetuum, on which Taylor Wessing also advised.  PanOpSys Limited intends this funding to go towards implementing its commercialisation plans. 

The Taylor Wessing team advising PanOpSys comprised Simon Walker, Adrian Rainey and Sian Griffiths (corporate), Darren Bezzina (intellectual property) and Camilla Marriott (employment).

Olswang advised investor Quester.

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