Life Sciences
Europe Guide 2024 : Germany
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Our Life Sciences and Healthcare team work with some of the largest pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies and healthcare providers in the world to a diverse collective of small-to-medium-sized start-up enterprises ready to up-scale their business, and many companies in between. We guide ambitious global clients within these dynamic and innovative industries through the maze of connected legal, commercial, and regulatory challenges.
We devise transformative business transactions for our life sciences and healthcare clients through strategic partnering collaborations, raising or placing capital or completing game-changing M&A transactions, and act on contentious matters such as patent litigation, product liability, and disputes with regulators.
Our Life Sciences and Healthcare team protects the value of our clients’ businesses enabling global expansion by providing practical, commercial recommendations on their complex regulatory, competition, compliance, and data protection requirements.
Whether our clients are in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device (including IVD’s), digital health, or healthcare industry, companies and investors value our ability to provide seamless legal and regulatory advice across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Through working alongside our partner network, we can ensure global coverage, including the key US market.
Chambers Review
Taylor Wessing offers a well-known practice that is active in both the healthcare and life sciences industries, with notable strength in transactions and related due diligence matters. It advises clients on contracts and data protection issues. The team is recommended for healthcare and pharmaceutical regulatory and compliance as well as intellectual property advice. It offers additional experience in distribution, drug and device advertising, device regulation and product liability disputes. Its lawyers act on behalf of private equity investors, pharmaceuticals companies, care home businesses, private hospital companies and specialist clinics.
Work Highlights
- Taylor Wessing defended AstraZeneca against product liability claims related to its COVID-19 vaccine and further assisted the client with trade mark disputes.
Strengths
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"Taylor Wessing has a good instinct for anticipating the complexity of a matter, even if not apparent at first sight, and allocating their resources accordingly."
"The team is fast, very competent and well connected."
"The law firm offers a high level of professionalism and is very reactive."
"Taylor Wessing is very good and effective and offers very good knowledge."
"Taylor Wessing has a good instinct for anticipating the complexity of a matter, even if not apparent at first sight, and allocating their resources accordingly."
"The team is fast, very competent and well connected."
"The law firm offers a high level of professionalism and is very reactive."
"Taylor Wessing is very good and effective and offers very good knowledge."
Notable Practitioners
Manja Epping handles contractual matters, including cooperation, R&D and licensing agreements, as well as regulatory compliance advice. She is also noted for her strength in intellectual property and food law. Her clients include pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies as well as medical device manufacturers.
"She is very good and experienced."
Oliver Klöck acts for a wide-ranging clientele including hospitals, medical care centres, laboratories, investors and insurers on the regulatory aspects of high-volume transactions, cooperations and joint ventures.
Oliver Kirschner regularly advises private equity firms and their portfolio companies on the sale and purchase of targets in the healthcare and life sciences sector, such as clinics and laboratories.
Wolfgang Rehmann is noted for advising pharmaceutical clients on compliance and the regulatory aspects of transactions. He also assists with issues related to medical devices.
Ranked Lawyers at
Taylor Wessing
Germany
Members
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Amir-Said Ghassabeh
Andrea Sautter
Angela Knierim
Anja Lunze
Head of Department
Anne Steinhardt
Christoph Hezel
Christoph de Coster
Christopher Peine
Daniel Tietjen
Gisbert Hohagen
Hans-Joachim Reck
Henning Moelle
Joachim Mandl
Karolina Lange-Kulmann
Kathleen Munstermann
Katja Schiffelholz
Lars Hagen
Mareike Gehrmann
Michael Brüggemann
Michael Stein
Head of Department
Niclas von Woedtke
Oliver Bertram
Oliver Kirschner
Stephan Doom
Thanos Rammos
Ulf Gosejacob
Ulrich Reers
Vanessa Christin Vollmar
Verena Bertram
Wiebke Baars
Xiaowen Paulus-Ye
Industries
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Biotech
Cannabis
Digital health
Healthcare
Medical devices
Medtech
Pharmaceuticals
Social care