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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.

 
Sarah Klaczynska
Sarah Klaczynska
Senior Associate
Senior Patent Attorney
United Kingdom, Sheffield
Sarah is a pragmatic and commercially-minded attorney who specialises in developing and executing IP strategies that enable clients to protect their innovation and maximise the value of their patent portfolios...
Elizabeth-Anne Larsen
Elizabeth-Anne Larsen
Senior Associate
Solicitor Advocate
United Kingdom, London
Elizabeth-Anne Larsen is a Senior Associate – Solicitor Advocate in CMS’ London office, specialising in litigation and regulatory, primarily in the fields of life sciences, product liability, consumer...
Frances Denney
Frances Lowe
Senior Associate
Patent Attorney
United Kingdom, London
Frances is a Chartered UK and European Patent Attorney in the IP department, specialising in the Life Sciences space. Her practice focusses on patent prosecution, opposition and appeal work before the...
Kaisa Patsalides
Kaisa Patsalides
Senior Associate
United Kingdom, London
Kaisa Patsalides is a Senior Associate in CMS’ Intellectual Property team in London and leads its dedicated Designs practice. Kaisa has 13 years' experience across all types of soft IP, with a focus...
Fionnuala Rice
Fionnuala Rice
Senior Associate
United Kingdom, London
Fionnuala is a Senior Associate in the Intellectual Property department, advising on the protection and enforcement of all IP rights.  Fionnuala has a particular focus on patent litigation, working with...
Natasha Ricioppo
Natasha Ricioppo
Senior Associate
United Kingdom, Manchester
Natasha Ricioppo is a Senior Associate Solicitor in the Professional Discipline and Regulatory team within the Litigation and Arbitration department. Natasha has specialised in professional disciplinary...
Jessica Sharpe
Jessica Sharpe
Senior Associate
United Kingdom, Sheffield
Jessica Sharpe is a Senior Associate in the Insurance And Re-Insurance Group (IRG), Defendant Clinical Negligence and Medical Advisory/Professional Discipline & Regulatory team based in the Sheffield...
Oscar Webb
Oscar Webb
Senior Associate
United Kingdom, London
Oscar is a Senior Associate in the Intellectual Property department. Oscar has considerable experience in advising clients in the technology, media, leisure, retail and fashion sectors. His practice covers...
Laurel Batty
Laurel Batty
Associate
United Kingdom, Sheffield
Laurel is an associate in the Clinical Risk and Medical Advisory team, within the CMS Lifesciences and Healthcare sector, based in the Sheffield office. Extensive litigation experience in a largely Defendant...
Felicity Bramall
Felicity Bramall
Associate
United Kingdom, London
Felicity is an Associate in the Employment Team. Her work primarily involves advising clients on day-to-day HR queries, disciplinary and grievance investigations / processes, redundancies, Employment...