The heavily regulated healthcare and pharmaceutical industry is facing ever increasing challenges, involving intellectual property disputes, parallel trades, and evolving regulation, to name but a few. Strategic acquisitions, distribution, licensing, joint ventures and international trade also mean, that significant growth is nonetheless also possible within the sector.

Our deep understanding of the business and legal intricacies that healthcare and pharmaceutical companies are faced with, allows us to provide effective solutions within this industry, across a wide range of areas that include dispute resolution, corporate and M&A, intellectual property, competition issues and employment law. Our services include advice on matters related to medicines and medical devices, pharmacies, hospitals, healthcare professionals, medical schemes and medical insurance.

Some of our most important work in this area involves IP-related matters. We have successfully litigated prominent patent cases and advise on the full spectrum of IP-related work.

We count the subsidiaries of some of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies among our clients, such as Pfizer Inc., Sanofi S.A., Bausch & Lomb, Ascendis Health, Endo International Plc, and Bayer AG, in addition to health care companies (including Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA), medical device producers (Medtronic PLC) and organisations active in related areas.