Life Sciences

About

Provided by Gómez-Acebo & Pombo

Our Life Sciences Group brings together professionals from different areas of practice covering all the legal aspects of interest to the companies from this sector.

All our lawyers work in close collaboration, providing clients with comprehensive and coordinated advice, and with well-established and specialized experience.

This multidisciplinary approach allows us to handle the whole spectrum of problems faced by the clients:

• Pharmaceuticals
• Biotechnology
• Medical devices
• Health
• Plant varieties
  
• Animal Health
  
  

Areas of specialization:

• Intellectual property: development of products and licensing: patents, trademarks and other types of intellectual property protection, strategic alliances, corporate alliances and marketing
• Companies and finance: public and private corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, national and international taxation, corporate matters, including contractual issues and project finance and investment alternatives and strategies (banking and finance)
• Competition: government and competition/anti-trust issues - issues of trade regulation, government contracts, international trade and unfair competition
• Litigation: Product liability, commercial disputes, consumer disputes and intellectual property disputes
• Regulation: strategies, processes and issues of public policy, including administrative procedures
• Tax: corporate income tax, international taxation, tax litigation, tax procedures, tax matters related to intellectual property and copyright