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Life Sciences & Healthcare

With over nine (10) specialist lawyers across Nairobi and Mombasa, we understand the scientific and commercial as well as the legal imperatives affecting your life sciences & healthcare business.

Our lawyers guide clients through complex litigation, corporate transactions, government investigations, regulatory compliance and privacy laws. We have played a leading role in critical and complex disputes that have defined the healthcare industry, according us the necessary experience and expertise to advice you on regulatory landscape and to ensure compliance with both local laws and global policies.

We are a leader in providing strategic and other advice relating to medical claims, medical malpractice, and patents. We have successfully defended leading members of the medical profession against disciplinary proceedings instituted at the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Council. We have also successfully challenged, by way of high court reviews and constitutional petition, disciplinary proceedings brought against medical practitioners.

Today, we possess an firm grasp of the life and health sciences sector and a practical understanding of the commercial realities underlying the sector.


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01/06/2022
CMS Next
What’s next? In a world of ever-ac­cel­er­at­ing change, stay­ing ahead of the curve and know­ing what’s next for your busi­ness or sec­tor is es­sen­tial.At CMS, we see ourselves not only as your leg­al ad­visers but also as your busi­ness part­ners. We work to­geth­er with you to not only re­solve cur­rent is­sues but to an­ti­cip­ate fu­ture chal­lenges and in­nov­ate to meet them.With our latest pub­lic­a­tion, CMS Next, our ex­perts will reg­u­larly of­fer you in­sights in­to and fresh per­spect­ives on a range of is­sues that busi­nesses have to deal with – from ESG agen­das to re­struc­tur­ing after the pan­dem­ic or fa­cing the di­git­al trans­form­a­tion. We will also share with you more about the work that we are do­ing for our cli­ents, help­ing them in­nov­ate, grow and mit­ig­ate risk.To be able to provide you with the best sup­port, we im­merse ourselves in your world to un­der­stand your leg­al needs and chal­lenges. However, it is equally im­port­ant that you know who we are and how we can work with you. So, we in­vite you to meet our ex­perts and catch a glimpse of what is hap­pen­ing in­side CMS.En­joy read­ing this pub­lic­a­tion, which we will up­date reg­u­larly with new con­tent.CMS Ex­ec­ut­ive Team
26/11/2021
COV­ID-19 vac­cin­a­tion and test­ing in Kenya - em­ploy­ment law per­spect­ive
Vac­cin­a­tion 1. What op­tions does the em­ploy­er have to en­cour­age em­ploy­ees to be vac­cin­ated? Can the em­ploy­er provide a fin­an­cial in­cent­ive to em­ploy­ees?  The gen­er­al duty of an em­ploy­er in Kenya as...
Comparable
24/11/2021
On the Pulse
Wel­come to CMS ‘On the Pulse’ video/pod­cast series for all Life Sci­ences & Health­care pro­fes­sion­als – leg­al, com­pli­ance, reg­u­lat­ory
11/05/2020
AI in Life Sci­ences
Ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence is not new: the term it­self was coined over 60 years ago. However, the con­ver­gence of data volume, pro­cessing power and tech­nic­al cap­ab­il­ity has con­vinced many that the AI era...