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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.

 
Zoë Curtis
Zoë Curtis
Associate
United Kingdom, London
Zoë is an Associate in the Insurance and Reinsurance Group, advising clients in respect of both coverage and defence matters. Zoë has experience advising clients on professional indemnity, directors...
Ryan Davis
Ryan Davis
Associate
United Kingdom, Sheffield
Ryan is an Associate in our Insurance and Reinsurance Group based in our Sheffield office with over 20 years’ experience, specialising in disease, EL/PL personal injury litigation. He handles all types...
Jennie Roddy
Jennie Dawson
Associate
United Kingdom, Manchester
Since 2015, Jennie Dawson has specialised in professional disciplinary and regulatory law. Jennie is an Associate in the Professional Discipline and Regulatory Team which sits within the Litigation and...
Nicole Ellerby
Nicole Ellerby
Associate
United Kingdom, Sheffield
Nicole is an associate in the Clinical Risk and Medical Advisory team within the CMS Lifesciences and Healthcare sector. Nicole qualified in 2022 and is based in the Sheffield office. Experience handling...
Sam Fisher
Sam Fisher
Associate
United Kingdom, London
Sam is an Associate Solicitor in CMS’ Intellectual Property team in London. He advises clients principally in the biotechnology, technology and media sectors, on a range of hard and soft IP and connected...
Chris Gorman
Chris Gorman
Associate
United Kingdom, Sheffield
Chris is an Associate in the Litigation and Arbitration team, recognised as a key lawyer by Legal 500 in South Yorkshire. Chris has extensive litigation experience in all aspects of commercial litigation...
Megan Kane
Megan Kane
Associate
United Kingdom, Edinburgh
Megan is an Associate in the Technology and Media team. 
Jessica King
Jessica King
Associate
United Kingdom, Sheffield
Jessica King is an Associate in the Dispute Resolution department, working predominantly in the Healthcare and Life Sciences sector
Gillian McCulloch
Gillian McCulloch
Associate
United Kingdom, Glasgow
Gillian McCulloch is an associate in the Technology and Media Team
Carter Rich
Associate
United Kingdom, Bristol
Carter is an associate in the Technology team and is a member of the firm’s Life Sciences Sector Group.  Carter’s experience includes advising on a broad range of commercial transactions and initiatives...