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Life Sciences

The current market can be both challenging and interesting for companies in the Life Sciences sector. We are committed to leveraging our knowledge of the law to create a business tool to provide you with strategic advice and support. We are able to identify and capitalise on new opportunities, defend and open up markets and help you diversify so you achieve your commercial objectives.

Our People

We have 40 senior Life Sciences experts in our Aberdeen, Beijing, Birmingham, Dubai, Doha, Edinburgh, London, Manchester, Munich, Paris, Shanghai and Singapore offices. Our international team provides a unique offering to our Life Sciences clients; advice on all "business critical" and "business as usual" issues. Our wider team boasts 70 specialists all of whom have broad Life Sciences expertise including many with backgrounds in medicine, medicinal chemistry, pharmacology, genetics, molecular biology and biochemistry.  The team also continues to grow

Our Approach

As a firm we invest in understanding clients' strategic goals, their market position and attitude to risk and return.  We endeavour to devise innovative solutions in response to your business needs.  By working in partnership, we seek to identify what is important to you to enable us to provide tailored, business relevant advice, aligned to your broader strategic vision.  We support clients through all stages of the product lifecycle - from investment for early stage R&D and technology transfer through to market entry and beyond..

Our Clients

We act for a range of world class clients across the life sciences industry, both public and private. Our clients include pharma, biotechs, medtechs, CROs, generic manufacturers, parallel distributors, wholesalers and pharmacists. We are the leading law firm in the UK for AIM listed Life Sciences companies and for advising the most AIM listed companies.

Our expertise and experience

The following is a summary of our expertise.

  • Brand protection and reputation management
  • Competition, regulatory and compliance
  • Commercial & alliance transactions
  • Corporate finance
  • Intellectual property strategy
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Patent litigation
  • Property
  • Public sector
  • Tax
  • Workforce

What Others Say

"Pinsent Masons offers specialist counsel to suit companies' requirements across the spectrum of the life sciences market, be it with regard to IP and patent litigation, portfolio management, regulatory or transactional work. The firm's work in the arena of patent litigation is particularly appreciated by peers and clients."  Chambers 2013

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