About

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Our dedicated Life Sciences & Healthcare team specialises in advising clients from the pharmaceutical, medical devices, cosmetics, novel food and agriculture industry. Because many of us have in-house experience, we understand your unique challenges and needs and have the ability to provide you with hands-on commercial advice.​


We operate across the majority of legal disciplines in the sector including intellectual property, corporate, EU and competition, commercial, employment, dispute resolution and real estate. This allows us to deliver to the wide business needs, both locally and internationally, of our clients. We are part of the global CMS Life Sciences group, consisting of 300 lawyers, across more than 40 countries, all of whom have a deep understanding of the legal and regulatory needs to provide our clients with practical, commercial and sector specific solutions.


We work for most of the global top pharmaceutical and medical devices companies, demonstrating that we are trusted by clients to support them on strategically important projects and investments.


https://cms.law/en/nld/global-reach/europe/netherlands/expertise/life-sciences-healthcare

Chambers Review

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Life Sciences - Netherlands
3
Band 3
What the team is known for

The life sciences department at CMS has a focus on helping with regulatory matters, including digital healthcare. Lawyers at the firm also represent healthcare providers in contentious cases,  as well as advising on reimbursement mandates.

Work Highlights

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  • CMS assisted Tonix Pharmaceuticals with a clinical trial agreement with the Dutch Erasmus University to organise a double-blind, placebo-controlled study.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Ellen Gielen
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Ellen Gielen
3
Band 3

Ellen Gielen assists with regulatory medical devices mandates, as well as compliance and reimbursement issues in the pharmaceutical and agrosciences industries.

"Ellen Gielen is exceedingly knowledgeable and experienced with a hands-on approach."

"Ellen Gielen knows her business inside and out, making it easy to bounce ideas off her quickly and proceed with business in the right direction and legal framework."

Ranked Lawyers at
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Life Sciences

Ellen Gielen
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Ellen Gielen
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Band 3

Members

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Cilia van Nierop

Edmon Oude Elferink

Ellen Gielen

Ellen Gielen

Head of Department

Gertie Lintjens

Judith Kok

Nicole Kuijer

Pieter van Duijvenvoorde

Rogier de Vrey