Life Sciences

About

Provided by Bird & Bird

Our International Life Sciences & Healthcare group works with over 50% of the world’s largest pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical devices companies, according to the Forbes. We have the largest patent litigation group in Europe and are recognised by major global directories as a top tier life sciences firm.

Our Italian team is widely recognised as one of the leading firms for high value litigation of pharmaceutical and life sciences patents and is part of one of the largest teams in Europe in this discipline. We are renowned for our involvement in many of the principal patent and regulatory litigation cases over recent years.

We offer a full service, including advice in the following areas:

• Intellectual property
• Regulatory
• Licensing and commercial transactions
• Corporate
• Dispute Resolution
• Employment, restructuring and trade secrets
• EU & Competition
• Data protection.

We work with a vast array of companies including pharmaceutical, biotech and medical devices companies, start-ups and university spin outs, financial institutions, hospitals, government bodies and their suppliers, manufacturers, distributors and clinical research organisations.

Our key areas are:

• Biotech
• Corporate and commercial transactions in the life sciences sector
• Regulatory and compliance
• Digital Health