Life sciences

The industry is innovative but also highly complex. Our life sciences lawyers can help you make the most of your ideas and products, offering all the legal advice you need.

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Our renowned multi-disciplinary team of life sciences lawyers can help wherever you need, whether that is to protect your latest idea or deal with compliance issues. With our sector knowledge and experience, we provide solutions and risk analysis to enable you to seize the opportunities open to you.

The team includes specialists who can advise on:

  • Corporate, commercial and financing transactions
  • Patents and IP
  • Privacy
  • Regulation and compliance
  • HR, immigration and pensions
  • Product liability
  • Dispute management
  • Tax and share options 
  • Real estate

Our experience

Our experience is extensive and includes:

  • Supporting a speciality pharmaceuticals group on the development and commercialisation of its lead drug candidates – putting in place a suite of supply chain and market access agreements, a Phase III clinical trial programme and setting up EU operations.

  • Advising a Swiss-based biotech business on a range of technology in-licensing transactions

  • Supporting a Danish global pharma group on UK product compliance issues

  • Advising on a large number of fundraisings, including IPOs, for a number of pharma, device, diagnostic and digital health organisations

  • Providing strategic HR support to international pharma businesses

  • Supporting o2h on the creation of early stage EIS and SEIS investment funds to back biotech therapeutic opportunities

  • Helping a global pharma business with data compliance issues around a clinical trial

  • Advising IQ Capital on its follow-on investment in Fluidic Analytics, as part of a £21 million fundraising

  • Helping Autolus relocate to the former BBC base at White City

  • Advising the Sanger Institute on strategic research collaborations with industry partners

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Significant international experience

We regularly act for life sciences businesses on transactions in North America, throughout Europe and in Asia.

Strength across connected sectors

Our market-leading university, charity and healthcare practices mean we've seen the issues you're facing from all sides.

A leading practice

Our team is nationally recognised in the Legal 500. All our leading lawyers are ranked in the main legal directories.

Our clients

Our clients include:

  • Global organisations
  • Fast-growing companies in a wide range of therapeutic areas
  • Universities involved in world-renowned research
  • Leading research institutes
  • Major research charities
  • Government organisations 
  • Sector fund managers

What our clients say about us

“Thank you, you have made this a tremendous learning experience for me and guided our company to a satisfactory outcome maintaining the respect for both parties. Your prep-sessions were spot-on sending me into the 'arena' feeling confident to do the job with all the scenarios worked out in my head.”

HR Director

Pharma client

“James Fry's "pharmaceutical and biotech sector expertise is first class" and he "consistently provides sound, pragmatic advice". ”

A client

Legal 500

“"Excellent service at reasonable rates" and "first-class, pragmatic and timely advice".”

A client

Legal 500

Our lawyers

Our life sciences lawyers are even former scientists or have worked in-house in life sciences companies - meaning our advice is pragmatic, commercially-focused and deeply rooted within the industry.

Get in touch

Our team of legal experts are here to support you.
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Our expertise


Medical devices, diagnostics and medtech
Biotechnology and pharmaceuticals

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Meet our life sciences team

Life Sciences blog

Our life sciences blog brings you up to date news and views on legal, regulation and policy decisions affecting the life science sector.
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Technology blog 

We also contribute to Mills & Reeve's technology blog and GDPR articles. 

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Further reading

13 Jun 2024

Drafting for disaster – a research project gone wrong

24 Jun 2024

SPC protection for second medical uses – hope on the horizon?

03 Jul 2024

Developing a regulatory regime for gene-edited food and what this means...

07 Aug 2024

Life sciences sector response to a change of government in the UK

13 Jun 2024

Drafting for disaster – a research project gone wrong

24 Jun 2024

SPC protection for second medical uses – hope on the horizon?

03 Jul 2024

Developing a regulatory regime for gene-edited food and what this means...

07 Aug 2024

Life sciences sector response to a change of government in the UK

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