Our Life Sciences and Healthcare team work with some of the largest pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies and healthcare providers in the world to a diverse collective of small-to-medium-sized start-up enterprises ready to upscale their business, and many companies in between. We guide ambitious global clients within these dynamic and innovative industries through the maze of connected legal, commercial, and regulatory challenges.
We devise transformative business transactions for our life sciences and healthcare clients through strategic partnering collaborations, raising or placing capital or completing game-changing M&A transactions, and act on contentious matters such as patent litigation, product liability, and disputes with regulators.
Our Life Sciences and Healthcare team protects the value of our clients’ businesses enabling global expansion by providing practical, commercial recommendations on their complex regulatory, competition, compliance, and data protection requirements.
Whether our clients are in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device (including IVD’s), digital health, or healthcare industry, companies and investors value our ability to provide seamless legal and regulatory advice across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Through working alongside our partner network, we can ensure global coverage, including the key US market.
Latest news & insights
The EU Commission's new pharmaceutical package: amended legal framework for data protection, marketing protection and market exclusivity
by Dr. Manja Epping and Sherin Sayed
The EC pharma and patent package – what’s important to know from a patent law perspective?
by multiple authors
Update on cannabis legalisation: working draft of a cannabis law
Horizons and sandboxes: emerging technology and data protection law
Advising Encora on its acquisition of Softelligence
by multiple authors
Our team
Please feel free to contact any of the people listed here for more information about our capabilities and their expertise in the Life Sciences & Healthcare sector in your jurisdiction. You can also search for a particular individual or see the whole team by using our people finder.
Tools and online services
Breakthrough Digital Health
A growth playbook for the changing digital health economy by innovators, for innovators.
Patent map
Our patent map is a unique online interactive tool which compares the patent litigation regimes across Europe.
It allows the user to select countries in Europe and instantly get answers to the key questions about the law and practice for patent litigation in each country.
MDR Medical Device Checker
Our MDR Medical Device Checker assesses the likelihood of your product falling within the scope of the Medical Devices Regulation.
