Healthcare, Life Sciences & Pharmaceuticals

Our multidisciplinary healthcare, life sciences and pharmaceutical team acts in all legal areas relating to the health sector.

We handle important operations and support the development of strategic partnerships, acquisitions, and structural investments in this sector. Our team advises private companies and groups on a wide variety of commercial agreements, including manufacturing, supply, distribution, licensing, co-development, and product marketing agreements. We also help clients with agreements to transfer marketing authorisations, intellectual property rights and other assets.

We have advised clients on a broad range of regulatory and compliance issues in different jurisdictions. Our advice has covered prices, prior medical assessments, reimbursements, clinical trials, European certifications, statements of responsibility, pharmacovigilance, advertising, and data protection. Our team provides support in various markets and with various health regulators. This advice covers everything from medicines, medical devices, food supplements, borderline products, controlled substances, and healthcare to new technologies for prevention, diagnosis, and treatment, including e-health projects. Whatever the matter, we help companies and organisations to anticipate regulatory risks, to define effective strategies and to achieve their business goals.

We deal with all types of administrative licensing, for manufacturers, distributors, and retailers, and at all stages of the product cycle. The team also represents clients in the growing area of public procurement for health products and services, and it has extensive experience in the field of debt recovery.

We also advise the industry on evaluating, defining, and handling strategies to protect intellectual property, including trade and industrial secrets, and exclusive rights. In addition, our team assists its clients with the resolution of disputes, and it acts in the fields pre-litigation, litigation, and arbitration.