Life Sciences & Health Care
Life Sciences & Health Care are some of the most important sectors of German economy with an enormous potential for growth.
Our Life Sciences Experts are legal practitioners, who have longstanding experience in advising companies in the in the pharmaceutical industry, in the diagnostic industry, in the field of biotechnology and in the medical devices industry and who have also extensive forensic experience at all pertinent courts. Furthermore, we advise a wide range of clients in various health care matters. Our ongoing cooperation with legal colleagues within the Deloitte law firm network all over the world guarantees an effective handling of cross-border matters. Our cooperation with the Life Sciences team of Deloitte ensures trans-disciplinary services in relation to all kind of tax and accounting aspects.
Our Services
- Protection of Research & Development results (confidentiality agreements and material transfer agreements)
- Advice regarding regulatory issues (clinical trial, market authorization, production, distribution)
- Cooperation in Research & Development projects
- License Agreements
- Toll manufacturing agreements, distribution and supply contracts
- Co-marketing agreements
- Product marketing (Law on health-care advertising)
- Acquisition, use and enforcement of Intellectual Property rights (trademarks, patents, designs, utility models, plant varieties)
- Employee inventions
- Structuring and financing of emerging companies (ranging from corporate and financial structures to governmental support of Research & Development projects and protection of Intellectual Property rights)
- Adapting to changing business environments through mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, initial public offerings (IPOs), spinoff of partial activities, insolvency and restructuring as well as employee participation models
- Risk management (civil and criminal law, discovery pursuant to US law)
- Legal representation in court disputes on the infringement of Intellectual Property rights, product liability and competition law disputes
- Advice on antitrust matters
- Issues of reimbursements and cooperation with public health insurance bodies (including disciplinary and criminal law issues)
- Advice concerning public health care (structuring and restructuring of service providers like hospitals, surgeries, pharmacies; entrepreneurial succession e.g. by transfer of acquisition of surgeries; cooperation in health care)
