We offer specialist, coordinated advice to the life sciences and healthcare sector on:
• Employment law
• Intellectual property
• Real estate
• Corporate
• Commercial
Life sciences & pharma
Specialist legal advice for the life sciences sector.
Whether your business is a startup or global player, or somewhere in between, our team can advise you at every stage of the product life cycle.
Intellectual property - patents
We know that intellectual assets are critical to success in the life sciences sector, especially for start-ups.
Our in-house patent attorneys have extensive experience of working with innovative life sciences businesses to protect their technical innovations from third party infringement. This includes patents and trade secrets and identifying and challenging third party patents. We also have expertise in freedom to operate searches and opposition/revocation proceedings.
Intellectual property – trade marks
Our team of trade mark attorneys have substantial experience of the life sciences sector, enabling us to secure robust IP protection for your brand.
From identifying potential third-party rights ahead of adoption of a brand or product name, to securing protection and enforcing your rights, our specialist expertise in this area can help you achieve your business goals.
Employment
We recognise the specific needs of innovative companies across pharma, life sciences and biotech and advise on the full range of employment, immigration, reward and data matters.
Whether it’s moving quickly to onboard and retain key talent, drafting appropriate or bespoke employment contracts for key senior hires, or negotiating and handling exits, we are familiar with industry norms and challenges.
With a team that includes High Court litigators and specialists in business immigration, global mobility, employee incentives and employee tax, we’re able to help protect your business. We can also provide bespoke training for your HR and leadership teams on topics such as diversity and inclusion or anti-harassment.
Digital, commerce & creative
We have extensive experience of helping startup and early-stage life science companies with their initial project partnerships, collaborations and distribution agreements with universities, R&D partners and customers.
Working closely with you we will identify each party’s IP contributions, and articulate the commercial story behind the transaction. This will be followed by incorporating the commercial requirements into best practice tech transfer agreements and licence arrangements.
Real estate
Our real estate team have widespread experience of working in the life sciences and pharma sector. Whether you need help with buying or selling offices, R&D facilities or production sites, or with managing an international real estate portfolio, we can help.
Corporate
Whether you’re a startup looking to expand, an ambitious growth business preparing to list, or a multinational enterprise undertaking major acquisitions, complex corporate law issues span the entire lifecycle of any business. We can support you on any legal issues related to employment, tax, intellectual property, data or real estate.
If you’re a startup, our community offering is specifically designed to help you navigate the legal landscape, leaving you to focus on the strategy and key business deliverables. With specialist advice on everything from data protection, IP and innovations through to fundraising, managing people, and getting your customer and supplier contracts right, your business will be in expert hands.
Immigration
We provide end-to-end immigration support to a wealth of companies specialising in the life sciences sector, including start-ups, unicorns, global corporate groups and boutique founder-owned companies. Whether your focus is on research and development, laboratory work, manufacturing, sales, or any other field, we provide specialist expertise.
Working closely with you to understand the best immigration route for your needs, we help ensure that you can attract and retain the top talent in the sector. We also provide comprehensive support to ensure that you comply with the relevant Home Office requirements.