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Bioscience
With the Cambridge area home to the largest cluster of bioscience activity outside North America, we’ve developed a highly regarded specialist team to advise clients both locally and further afield.
We advise everyone from individuals and start-ups to multinationals, research institutes and NHS Trusts. Bioscience sectors include clinical trials, drug discovery, medical devices, small molecules and biotechnology.
The lawyers in our bioscience team pride themselves on grasping the scientific principles of a technology and providing practical insight into commercialising it effectively. They strive to provide cost-effectiveness, particularly when young companies are seeking funding.
Bioscience advice covers:
- Funding, mergers, acquisitions and flotations
- Contracts ranging from confidentiality and materials transfer agreements to major licensing and collaboration deals
- Process scale-up and product manufacture
- Employee share option schemes
- Tackling intellectual property infringement or allegations that the client’s intellectual property infringes a third party
- Regulatory issues such as compliance with clinical trials regulations and novel food
- Data protection and patient confidentiality requirements
- Patient consent and Freedom of Information Act issues
- Competition law and anti-trust issues
- Contracts for employees, consultants and scientific advisory board members
- Immigration issues in connection with the recruitment of overseas staff
- Leases for laboratory premises
Bioscience is a global sector, so consequently we have developed a wide experience of negotiating contracts with an international element. As a founder member of Law Exchange – the international network of technology orientated law firms – we can obtain swift overseas advice when necessary.
To download our Bioscience service sheet please visit our Knowledge Centre.
