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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.

 
Niall McAlister
Niall McAlister
Partner
United Kingdom, London
Niall McAlister is a partner in the Corporate/M&A Team at CMS London. With over thirty years' experience as a corporate lawyer, Niall has particular expertise in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures...
Amanda Methven
Amanda Methven
Partner
United Kingdom, Edinburgh
Amanda Methven is a partner with over 15 years' experience as a projects lawyer across health, education, wastewater and transport projects. She advises UK clients in the infrastructure sector on a wide...
Mark Moseling
Mark Moseling
Partner
United Kingdom, London
Mark Moseling is a partner in the Finance team. He specialises in corporate and leveraged finance and has extensive experience acting for banks, corporate borrowers and private equity sponsors in relation...
Hannah Netherton
Hannah Netherton
Partner
United Kingdom, London
Hannah Netherton is a partner in the Employment Team. She advises on the full range of contentious and non-contentious employment law matters, including Employment Tribunal and High Court litigation...
Philip Norman
Philip Norman
Partner
United Kingdom, London
Philip Norman is a partner in the CMS Infrastructure, Construction and Energy Team.  For nearly 30 years Philip has focused on international dispute resolution, with a specialism in international arbitration...
John O'Connor
John O'Connor
Partner
United Arab Emirates, Dubai
John O'Connor is a partner and head of our Corporate and Commercial Practice in Dubai where he has been practicing since 2012. His expertise covers all manner of corporate and commercial transactions...
James Parkes
James Parkes
Partner
United Kingdom, London
James Parkes is a partner in the Corporate Transactions group. He advises UK and international clients on a broad range of transactions, including domestic and cross-border M&A (public and private), joint...
Loretta Pugh
Dr. Loretta Pugh
Partner
United Kingdom, London
Loretta is a specialist data protection and cyber security partner with a background in IT.  Advice ranges from general compliance to highly strategic and business critical matters.  These may be domestic...
Omar Qureshi
Omar Qureshi
Partner
Risk
United Kingdom, London
Omar Qureshi is a partner in the Risk team of CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang, based in the London office. His role covers the whole range of risk management, regulatory and compliance issues for...
Tom Scourfield
Tom Scourfield
Partner
Co-Head of the international IP Group and UK Chair of the Consumer Products Sector Group
United Kingdom, London
Tom Scourfield is Co-Head of the international IP Group at CMS and UK Chair of the Consumer Products Sector Group. He is a Solicitor Advocate (England and Wales), with an Irish solicitors qualification...