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Associate

Carter Rich

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  • English

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 across the Life Sciences and TMC sectors and in particular arrangements with an intellectual property, data protection or outsourcing focus. Carter graduated from University of York with an LLB, and an LLM from BPP University Holborn.

Relevant experience

  • An internationally renowned European university in relation to a 40-party consortium to develop a dependable, advanced and cost-effective method for chemical safety assessment.
  • Two international universities and a philanthropic funder in relation to a collaboration agreement to facilitate international research, material transport and data transfers relating to Duchenne muscular dystrophy clinical trials.
  • Spectrum Medical Group on a $1 billion investment deal with private equity firm CVC.
  • An international university’s medical centre on its day-to-day research, licensing, spin-out, collaboration and consortium agreements.
  • University researchers in relation to the development of a fast-testing Covid-19 device in the Netherlands.
  • University of Sheffield on a commercial master research agreement for RNAi therapeutics and gene therapy research.
  • The leading UK payments authority to bring new anti-fraud technology onto the market in conjunction with the leading banks in the UK, aimed at tackling mule fraud.
  • A leading construction company to create the first ever Data Trust in conjunction with think tanks, governmental departments and the wider UK construction industry to promote open use of data within the industry to increase health and safety measures in construction. 

Education

  • 2020 - LLM Legal Practice Course, BPP, London
  • 2019 – LLB in Law, University of York