Healthcare

As the global healthcare market expands and develops, businesses are deploying new and innovative ways to help improve patient outcomes. Our breadth of expertise can help you to capitalise on these opportunities. Our team advises on health and social care transactions and issues, and companies on all aspects of their businesses (including start-up, funding, acquisitions, regulatory, employment and incentives, and protection of intellectual property).

We have advised clients involved in the provision of life-saving bariatric surgery and quality-of-life-enhancing domiciliary-care contracts. Other matters include advising on procurement and reimbursement, and on issues relating to integrated healthcare systems.

Our clients include owners and managers of hospitals and care homes, public health and security authorities, and private providers of services and equipment. We also have a specialist healthcare technology practice, advising the companies and investors that are transforming the way therapies and patient services are delivered.

Patent & Technical Disputes Regulatory & Compliance Advisory Transactional

A selection of our experiences

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Patent & Technical Disputes

Advised GAMA Healthcare on the manufacture and distribution of unique infection control products and on bidding for and challenging the public procurement of high-value NHS framework agreements across the UK.

Advised UK leading manufacturer of life-critical pharmaceuticals, on its challenge to the NHS on its decision to fundamentally change the way it procures chemotherapy medicines.

Advised Huntsman, a global manufacturer and marketer of differentiated and specialty chemicals, on commercial contracts and regulatory matters, including disputes, global distribution network and supply chain issues.

We regularly advise Gama on protecting their market position by understanding and mitigating the risks in defective documents, engaging with the NHS, and where necessary, challenging defective procedures.

Advising Gerresheimer Regensburg on defence against product liability claims.

We continue to be the sole adviser to Nutricia on all of its public procurement issues. Nutricia is the leading supplier of enteral feeds and associated nursing services to the NHS across the UK.

Advising a leading manufacturer of life-critical pharmaceuticals, on its challenge to the NHS on its decision to fundamentally change the way it procures chemotherapy medicines.

Advising a medical devices and food supplements company on interim litigation relating to the sale of a Class IIa medical device, distributed in Germany, in consideration of the alleged non-conformity of the claims on the product labels with technical documentation.

Regulatory & Compliance

Advised GAMA Healthcare on requirements of the NHS Supply Chain’s Labour Standards Assurance System, to ensure good labour standards throughout the NHS supply chain.

Advised CooperVision, world's leading contact lens companies, on its GDPR compliance framework, including but not limited to, the drafting of data protection clauses and the setting up of new policies and procedures for processing personal data.

Advised an NHS trust on a data analytics sharing model to enable insights developed by machine learning research scientists on PET scan image data (machine learning was used to diagnose early stage onset of diseases such as cancer) to be shared with commercial enterprise and other research establishments.

Advised a leading medical nutrition company on public procurement of contracts for supplying advanced medical nutrition goods and nursing services to the NHS.

Advised Military Medical Personnel, a specialist Temporary Healthcare Professional supplier to the Ministry of Defence, on critical legal issues.

Advising European Foundation for the Study of Chronic Liver Failure in the implementation of certain anti-bribery policies and procedures.

Advising Globiana (a chain of healthcare Centres) on pharmaceutical and other regulatory rules pertaining to the transmission of confidential information from health care facilities to the National Health Fund.

Advising Reckitt's health division in relation to the classification of a product under the medical devices directive and regulations.

Advising SDM, an Italian company the produces and markets a special medical diet based on the ketogenic diet - on a wide range of regulatory matters, including on the applicable compliance rules regarding payment of donations to hospital charities to fund study grants.

Setting up quality agreements regarding medical devices' distribution for a listed US eyecare company active in the Netherlands.

Advising a major international diagnostics company on complying with new carbon net zero requirements required by new NHS contracts.

Assisting a national medical device industry association in negotiating, drafting and reviewing sector legislation to be passed at national level.

Advising a nursing staff company on all the regulatory aspects of their service.

Advising an US dental and medical device manufacturer on regulatory vendor due diligence for the sale of a group of companies commercializing medical devices.

Advisory

Advised a multinational technology company, on various health data matters in the UK and Europe.

Advised an NHS Foundation Trust in respect of licensing of data in relation to patient imaging technology as part of a collaboration with a university and a medical technology company.

Advised a leading medical devices company, providing flexible clinical capacity solutions to acute hospitals across the UK and internationally, in relation to trade mark portfolio management and dispute strategy relating to a brand for a mobile endoscopy unit.

Advised a leading medical nutrition company, part of the Danone group that specialises in therapeutic food and clinical nutrition, on a variety of distribution, EU-wide route to market strategies and various cross-border trade, own label, grey imports and intellectual property issues.

Advising CooperVision with general advice and negotiations on T&Cs in contracts with distributors and retailers.

Advising Corin daily with their employment law issues (individual and collective).

Advising European Foundation for the Study of Chronic Liver Failure in the lease of offices located in Barcelona.

Representing EVER Neuro Pharma GmbH, a leading German medical device company before the Ministry of Health in the reimbursement proceedings concerning several medical devices.

Advising Haema in several areas of law, in particular in competition law (with a view to the competitive blood donation market and regulatory interfaces), commercial landlord and tenant law (blood donation centers), employment law (collective and individual employment law), data protection and purchasing of goods relevant to operations.

Advising Havas Life / Sciterion on processes and drafting of model documentation for the contractualisation of healthcare staff employed by the public administration.

Commercial law assistance in the context of the broader representation of the founders, INKEF Capital, Gilde Healthcare, Thuja Capital Healthcare, Health Innovation Fund, Van Herk Ventures (sellers) in the sale of NightBalance to Royal Philips.

Advising a global healthcare company on employment issues relating to the divestment of a business unit which involved over 70 redundancies across three sites.

Advising a global healthcare company on establishing a legal entity in Belgium and transferring employees internationally.

Advising a leading tech firm on commercial matters in relation to a major NHS cloud data platform.

Transactional

Advised the management team of a property holding company backed by a portfolio of investors led by Centerbridge Partners L.P. on its US$2bn sale of a 50-site portfolio of private hospitals and associated sale of BMI Healthcare.

Advised Uniphar, diversified healthcare services business, on the English law elements of its €150m AIM IPO.

Advised Ashtons Hospital Pharmacy Services, leading provider of specialist pharmacy services to independent healthcare providers in the UK, on an investment into the business from mid-market private equity investor LDC.

Advising on the acquisition of Caring Homes Healthcare Group Limited - a business that owns and operates a portfolio of care homes in the UK and Jersey.

Repesenting the founders, INKEF Capital, Gilde Healthcare, Thuja Capital Healthcare, Health Innovation Fund, Van Herk Ventures (sellers) in the sale of NightBalance to Royal Philips.

Advising Klinotel Hornbach Errichtungs on the transaction of Parkklinik Hornbach to Primonial REIM Germany.

Advising UK private equity firm Synova and its portfolio company, Preventx, on its acquisition of Vira Services (Soapoli Online), the largest provider of self-sample sexual health testing services in the Netherlands.

Advising Terumo Corporation in a comprehensive strategic partnership agreement with the French company Diabeloop, including investment in a new financing round (Series C) in the amount of circa. €70m alongside existing investors, LBO France and Roche.

Advising VAMED Gesundheit Holding Deutschland on an acquisition in the outpatient division.

Advising on vendor due diligence for the sale of a group of companies commercialising devices, on behalf of an US dental equipment manufacturer and dental consumables producer.

Advising an US dental medtech business on a corporate restructuring / transfer of a business to a newly established company by means of a capital increase in kind with the transfer of a branch.

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