Your work is where the future starts, at the cutting edge of research and development.
We are here to make sure you move beyond that starting point, tailoring our advice to fit your organization's practical and scientific needs.
If you are a university, we can deal with the legal complexities and help you further your non-profit mission and boost your academic reputation. If you are a business, we can help you to navigate funding options. If you are a venture capitalist or private equity firm, we can help you assess and protect your investment.
Whatever your set up, we can be trusted advisors in the field of IP, protecting patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets, helping you to build a portfolio and, when needed, enforce your rights through litigation. When you are conducting clinical trials, we can ensure your work meets regulatory and compliance requirements around the world. We can also help you commercialize if required, via joint ventures and M&A deals, as well as dealing with more operational requirements such as transactional work, licensing, safety, labor and employment agreements, and data privacy.
We have worked with many of the world's best universities, government agencies and business clients ranging from start-ups to multinationals. Our clients come from the fields of human healthcare and veterinary medicine, agriculture, biotechnology and industry. When you speak to us, you will be talking to a team who are not just experienced lawyers, but who have the scientific background to understand your research and to advance your ideas. Our team is ready to help and includes biomedical, electrical, mechanical, chemical, and nuclear engineers as well as chemists, biotechnologists, and Ph.D.s in genetics and other life science niches.
Recent client experience includes advising:
- a pharmaceutical manufacturing company in relation to a significant research and development project which has included the drafting and negotiation of a development, manufacturing and supply agreement for new high performance technologies and drug products to be used within the aerosol drug delivery market
- an international life sciences company on local and international matters including development agreements and clinical trials
- a specialist contract research organiZation and the world leader in testing infectious and respiratory disease vaccines on the reverse takeover listed on London’s and Dublin’s ESM markets
- advising an international life sciences company involved in the development and manufacturing of solutions for use in the life sciences sector on a range of issues from establishment in Ireland and ongoing corporate, employment, real estate and corporate governance matters