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Lifesciences & Healthcare lawyers

Discovery, innovation, market awareness and understanding are key to those life sciences and healthcare entities providing services and finance towards, and developing therapies and services for, the improvement of patient outcomes.

Due to the highly regulated nature of the industry, as an operator, investor, adviser, developer or licensee, you will be dealing with complex legal and regulatory requirements to launch, maintain and deliver your products and services to the market.

Our Life Sciences team is immersed in the sector and we appreciate our clients' technology; we are not just lawyers, we are immunologists, geneticists, chemists and engineers. With this background we are ideally placed to really understand your business, how it is changing and what you want from a trusted advisor. Highly relevant to this sector is our fully integrated European patent attorney practice. Spanning multiple disciplines, both legal and scientific, our lawyers and patent attorneys operate as one team with a common outlook and objective for our clients - providing pragmatic, innovative and effective advice, efficiently.

Our Healthcare team is truly immersed in the sector with over 25 years of advising and shaping the sector through in depth experience, knowledge and sector associations and collaborations. We have significant experience of working within the public and private sectors, giving us a complete perspective of the issues you face, allowing us to offer you commercial and well rounded advice.

With active memberships in major industry bodies such as the ABPI, ABHI, BIVDA, EUCOMED / MedTech Europe, Healthcare UK and the BPF, we help shape the legal and compliance frameworks impacting the life sciences and healthcare sectors.

As well as clients' significant, complex and strategic transactional, financing and structuring matters, we regularly advise on day-to-day business operations, covering areas such as public procurement, tax, competition, IP protection, exploitation and enforcement, product liability, supply chain, outsourcing and other commercial agreements and employment and pensions matters, as well as regulatory, disputes, risk and compliance advice. Truly a full service.

 
Yvonne Screene
Yvonne Screene
Partner
United Kingdom, London
Yvonne is a Partner with more than 25 years' experience in defending med-mal claims and healthcare regulation. She has acted for the Medical Defence Union (MDU) for the last ten years and has also worked...
Toby Sears
Toby Sears
Partner
United Kingdom, London
Toby is a leading IP litigator, advising clients in the High-Tech and Life Science Sectors. Toby works on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious intellectual property matters, with a specialty...
Mark Shillito
Mark Shillito
Partner
United Kingdom, London
Mark is an international law firm leader and IP specialist.  He has over 30 years’ experience of helping clients to manage risk, commercialise assets and resolve their most complex and high value disputes...
Paul Smith
Paul Smith
Partner
Head of the CMS Energy, Projects and Construction Group
United Kingdom, London
Paul Smith is Head of the CMS Energy, Projects and Construction (EPC) Group and Co-head of the firm’s Infrastructure & Projects Group. He leads an international team of over 200 lawyers. He has extensive...
Robert Stephen
Robert Stephen
Partner
Patent Attorney, Co-Chair Life Sciences & Healthcare Sector
United Kingdom, London
Robert is a UK Chartered Patent Attorney and European Patent Attorney with over 20 years' experience, and is qualified to act before the European Patent Office and the Unified Patent Court. He focusses...
Joel Vertes
Joel Vertes
Partner
United Kingdom, London
Joel Vertes is a Partner in CMS’s “Band-One” ranked IP team – one of the largest dedicated IP teams of any law firm. Joel has spent 20 years acting as IP “consiglieri” to his clients, and...
Anna Walsh
Anna Walsh
Partner
United Kingdom, London
Anna is a Partner in CMS’ Insurance and Reinsurance Group and specialises in defending medical malpractice claims of the highest complexity and value and advising on medical malpractice insurance coverage...
Alison Woods
Alison Woods
Partner
Co-Head of Employment
United Kingdom, Aberdeen
Alison is co-head of the CMS UK employment team, and has a practice that extends across the full range of contentious and non-contentious employment law.  Alison has a particular interest in assisting...
Sarah Wright
Sarah Wright
Partner
Head of Intellectual Property
United Kingdom, London
Sarah has built her leading IP practice advising companies on how to protect, monetise and enforce their brands and designs. Sarah advises clients in the Technology, Media and Communications, Life Sciences...
Jason Zemmel
Jason Zemmel
Partner
United Kingdom, London
Jason Zemmel is a Partner based in the CMS London office. Jason advises a wide range of private equity houses, management teams, corporates, investors and advisers on the full range of private equity...