With one of Europe's largest pharmaceuticals teams, we provide expertise to pharmaceutical companies from global corporations to start-ups in accelerating their growth and maintaining their competitive edge. Our knowledge and expertise in the pharmaceutical industry are extensive. Clients value our pragmatic and strategic advice based on a thorough understanding of the technical, scientific, IP, and the regulatory landscape in which they operate.
Securing a sustainable future for our pharmaceutical clients is a priority, and we achieve this in several ways. We regularly challenge regulators' decisions and undertake judicial reviews, combined with our innovative collaborations with highly regarded specialists in dispute resolution. Many of our lawyers have science degrees and Ph.Ds or have worked in-house at leading global pharmaceutical companies giving them a competitive advantage and reliable hands-on knowledge and insights.
We keep our clients on the right side of regulatory compliance, enable strategic alliances and clinical trials, advise on supply and distribution, and all intellectual property rights aspects. We also provide expertise in restructuring, manufacture, product portfolio divestments, acquisitions, IPOs, and M&A.
Global pharmaceutical companies rely on our patent litigators' expertise to resolve both offensive and defensive multi-jurisdictional patent litigation. Similarly, we work alongside pharmaceutical companies to resolve commercial disputes through the courts or international arbitration.
Our work's breadth is extensive and covers additional specialist areas that are invaluable to our client's growth and the protection and commercialization of valuable assets. Our IP licensing and life sciences commercial specialists advise on structuring, drafting, and negotiating on the commercialisation of products for pharmaceutical clients. Our specialist life sciences corporate team secures innovative pharmaceutical companies' futures through strategic funding solutions, including working with reputed angel investors and venture capitalists, investments from, and buyouts by private equity houses and through strategic asset disposals and acquisitions and M&A transactions.
We advised Apollo Therapeutics in their USD226.5 million series C fundraising. Apollo aims to advance pipeline programs through clinical development and further fund the company’s drug discovery and development activities based on breakthroughs in basic medical research made at its partner institutions, which include The Institute of Cancer Research.
Press releaseApotex on the sale of six European subsidiaries in Belgium, Poland, the Netherlands, Czech Republic and Spain, to Aurobindo for EUR74 million. This highly complex transaction involved the share transfer of subsidiaries in multiple jurisdictions being co-ordinated and managed by our UK team. We simultaneously advised on a multitude of business separation, ongoing product supply agreements and IP licences for the European business to continue operating after being removed from the Apotex group.
Teva Pharmaceuticals Europe BV on its divestments of portfolios of generic pharmaceutical products (approximately 260 medicinal products) in 24 EU jurisdictions to multiple purchasers, in addition to advising Teva on the divestment of certain parts of its business. The divestments were a condition enforced by the European Commission to approve Teva's USD40.5 billion acquisition of Allergan plc’s global generics and have been run as a competitive auction process, resulting in five asset sales.
CITIC 21CN Co., Limited (HKEX: 0241) (now known as Alibaba Health Information Technology Limited), a member of CITIC Group (HKEX: 0267), on a HKD1.3 billion takeover by Alibaba Group (NYSE: BABA; HKEX: 9988) (one of China's largest e-commerce companies) and Yunfeng Capital (the venture capital firm set up by Alibaba Group founder, Jack Ma). Alibaba and Yunfeng obtained a whitewash waiver and took a controlling stake without triggering a mandatory general offer.
One of the largest suppliers of pharmaceutical suppliers in the Benelux on its successful defence against a software licensing claim for approx. EUR2 million.
Several pharmaceutical companies on merger control issues, R&D, cooperation agreements, co-marketing and related aspects.
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