Healthcare: Private Sector
UK Guide 2025 : UK-wide
Band 1
Contact number
+44 20 7577 6900Chambers Review
McDermott Will & Emery is a specialist healthcare group with strong domestic and international capabilities, acting for clients across the UK and USA. The team demonstrates strong transactional expertise, handling M&A transactions, joint ventures and financing mandates. The firm is equally adept at advising on contractual, regulatory, corporate governance and employment issues. McDermott Will & Emery offers further expertise in relation to data privacy and digital health, particularly innovative imaging and diagnostic technologies.
Work Highlights
- McDermott Will & Emery advised Vesey Street Capital Partners on the acquisition of the global pharmaceutical services company Inceptua.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"The firm has super specialised knowledge and expertise. Its also responsive, and often at short notice."
"The team takes a personable, extremely responsive and professional approach, with comprehensible advice and a clear way forward."
"The firm has specialist knowledge on NHS contracting and significant healthcare sector insight and awareness. Its advice is pragmatic and underpinned by understanding our position."
"A second to none knowledge of healthcare law and regulation and forensic approach to detail. This is coupled with high commercial acumen to situate arguments for the healthcare operating environment."
"The firm has super specialised knowledge and expertise. Its also responsive, and often at short notice."
"The team takes a personable, extremely responsive and professional approach, with comprehensible advice and a clear way forward."
"The firm has specialist knowledge on NHS contracting and significant healthcare sector insight and awareness. Its advice is pragmatic and underpinned by understanding our position."
"A second to none knowledge of healthcare law and regulation and forensic approach to detail. This is coupled with high commercial acumen to situate arguments for the healthcare operating environment."
Notable Practitioners
Sharon Lamb frequently advises private sector providers on complex regulatory issues surrounding multi-jurisdictional commercial transactions and investments. She is noted for her experience in the primary care and healthtech sectors.
"Sharon has an unprecedented knowledge of healthcare law and regulation, a customer-focused approach and high commercial acumen."
"Sharon Lamb is a highly experienced individual with specialist knowledge that she uses to advise on highly complex and detailed matters. We cannot recommend her highly enough."
"She translates very complex issues into language that non-lawyers can understand, which helps us make the best decisions on a way forward, understanding commercial risks and benefits."
"Sharon Lamb knows everything worth knowing about healthcare law."
"Sharon is genuinely one of the few experts in healthcare; she knows anything and everything in this area. She is very much willing to get involved and set strategic directions."
Hamid Yunis is the managing partner of McDermott Will & Emery's UK office. He assists both international and domestic healthcare clients with a range of corporate matters, including acquisitions, joint ventures and the regulatory and contractual aspects of commercial arrangements.
Bella North advises domestic and international clients across the healthcare market and brings her regulatory expertise to complex transactions and compliance questions.
"She is very knowledgeable in her area and provides solid and practical advice."
Ranked Lawyers at
McDermott Will & Emery LLP
UK-wide