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Tasmina Goraya, PhD
Tasmina Goraya, PhD

Tasmina Goraya, PhD

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Tasmina is a partner in the firm's Patent team and is a core member of the firm's UK and International Life Sciences Group. 

She works with our clients in the life sciences sector advising on contentious and non-contentious areas, including a broad range of regulatory and compliance issues relating to pharmaceuticals, medical devices, food supplements, human cells and tissue. Tasmina regularly advises on patent, regulatory and contract disputes, with a particular focus on arbitrations as well as the regulatory aspects of corporate transactions. Tasmina further assists clients with specialist agreements, such as clinical trials agreements.

Expertise

Services and Groups

Patents & innovation
Brands & advertising
Commercial & consumer contracts
Disputes & investigations
Environmental, planning & regulatory
Product liability & product safety
Product launch strategy
Contractual, technology, data and IP due diligence in M&A transactions
Drafting and negotiating the full range of consumer (B2C) contracts
Drafting and negotiating the full range of complex commercial (B2B) contracts
Product compliance
Regulatory issues affecting contractual arrangements
IP disputes
Healthcare regulatory
Advising on life sciences regulation
Drafting and negotiating patents & know-how commercial agreements
Resolving patents & know-how disputes

Sectors

Life sciences & healthcare
Medical devices
Biotech
Digital health
Health & social care and investors
Pharmaceuticals

CV

Since 2019 Partner, Taylor Wessing
2017 - 2019 Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing
2016 - 2017 Associate, Taylor Wessing
2011 - 2016 Associate, Bird & Bird
2006 - 2011 Paralegal, Trainee Solicitor, Mills & Reeve
2003 - 2006 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Pharmacology, University of Cambridge
2013 Postgraduate Diploma, Intellectual Property Law and Practice, Oxford University
2011 Admitted as a solicitor, England & Wales
2009 Legal Practice Course, College of Law
2007 Diploma in Law, College of Law
2003 PhD, Pharmacology, thesis on 'The regulation of intracellular calcium release by parathyroid hormone', Cambridge University
1999 BSc, Toxicology & Pharmacology, The School of Pharmacy, University of London

Career

Since 2019 Partner, Taylor Wessing
2017 - 2019 Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing
2016 - 2017 Associate, Taylor Wessing
2011 - 2016 Associate, Bird & Bird
2006 - 2011 Paralegal, Trainee Solicitor, Mills & Reeve
2003 - 2006 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Pharmacology, University of Cambridge

Education

2013 Postgraduate Diploma, Intellectual Property Law and Practice, Oxford University
2011 Admitted as a solicitor, England & Wales
2009 Legal Practice Course, College of Law
2007 Diploma in Law, College of Law
2003 PhD, Pharmacology, thesis on 'The regulation of intracellular calcium release by parathyroid hormone', Cambridge University
1999 BSc, Toxicology & Pharmacology, The School of Pharmacy, University of London

Additional languages

English

Awards

Legal 500 UK 2025

Featured

Next generation partner

Legal 500 UK 2025

Next generation partner

Chambers and Partners UK 2024

Intellectual Property - Band 2: “Tasmina is a good patent litigator.”

Legal 500 UK 2022

Intellectual Property (Next generation partner)

Product liability - defendant: "Tasmina Goraya combines impressive scientific know-how with the ability to communicate the detail to non-experts in a compelling way."

Biotechnology (Next generation partner)

IP - contentious and non-contentious

Product liability - defendant: "Tasmina Goraya combines impressive scientific know-how with the ability to communicate the detail to non-experts in a compelling way."

Experience

Sale of S&IP business

Halyard Health on the sale of its surgical and infection prevention (S&IP) business to OMI.

Tasmina Goraya, PhD
Evelyne Friedel
Christian Dekoninck

Apotex's EUR74m sale of subsidiaries to Aurobindo

Apotex 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.

Colin McCall
Simon Cohen
Tasmina Goraya, PhD
Jason Rawkins
Simon Jupp
Bart Hunnekens
Roos Seesing

Acting on a multi-million pound arbitration claim

A medical research organisation in a multi-million pound arbitration claim against a Japanese pharmaceutical company, seeking royalties due on the sales of a blockbuster drug resulting from an R&D collaboration between the parties.

Chris Thornham
Tasmina Goraya, PhD
Gemma Broughall

Tasmina's news & insights

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Brands & advertising

Food claims: navigating pitfalls in the UK

14 December 2023

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'Femtech' – regulatory considerations

Tasmina Goraya looks at the application of medical device and healthcare law to femtech products and services.

29 October 2021
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Graham Hann, Tasmina Goraya, and Ronald Graham discuss the future of technology, life sciences and private wealth with Legal Cheek

28 October 2020

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