Taylor Wessing is the exclusive European legal sponsor of the 14th Annual BioPartnering Europe Conference

Taylor Wessing is the exclusive European legal sponsor of the 14th Annual BioPartnering Europe (BPE) Conference, on 8-10 October 2006.

Taylor Wessing will be hosting two workshops and chairing the first BioPartnering leadership session of the event. Partner Dr Malcolm Bates will chair the leadership session discussion, which will be on the drivers of the growing trend among big pharma companies to access innovative biotech products by investing in the companies themselves, as evidenced by the latest key equity deals. The first workshop, chaired by partner Daniel Pavin, will explore all aspects of industry collaboration, while the second will focus on raising development capital on the public markets in Europe. Partners Howard Palmer, Alain de Foucaud and Dr Christian Traichel from Taylor Wessing's offices in the UK, France and Germany will provide insight into the features of the markets in their jurisdictions.

Daniel Pavin comments:

"Taylor Wessing is delighted to be a major sponsor once again of BioPartnering Europe. Our Life Sciences & Healthcare Group, from across our European offices, is looking forward to participating in this leading industry event."

Notes to editors

If you would like to attend the conference or require further information please contact Taylor Wessing's Media Relations on 020 7300 4930/ 4925  or email s.lee@taylorwessing.com.

Taylor Wessing is a major European law firm of 550 lawyers with offices in London, Cambridge, Berlin, Brussels, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, Paris and Shanghai.

Taylor Wessing has an enviable track record in serving knowledge-based and technology-orientated businesses.  A market leader in intellectual property and venture capital, the firm also has a strong market presence in corporate finance, private equity, real estate finance, inward investment and technology, media and telecoms. Further information is available from www.taylorwessing.com. 

Taylor Wessing has a dedicated Life Sciences & Healthcare Group, which provides a top quality, multi-disciplinary service. The Life Sciences & Healthcare Group and its members have been described as "outstanding", "leading authorities", "excellent" and as having "remarkable strength and depth" in directories such as Chambers, PLC Global Counsel and Legal 500. Our Life Sciences & Healthcare Group combines Taylor Wessing's top-ranked lawyers in life sciences and healthcare, intellectual property, and venture capital with our highly regarded corporate, finance, competition (anti-trust), employment and real estate specialists. 

"Taylor Wessing [provides] first-class service across all aspects of life sciences." Legal 500 2006

Taylor Wessing is one of two platinum sponsors of the 14th Annual BioPartnering Europe, along with AstraZeneca. Other sponsors include Deloitte, Wyeth, Pfizer, Merck and Novartis.

Further information about BioPartnering Europe may be found at www.techvision.com/bpe.