Life Sciences

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Provided by Gómez-Pinzón

GP is one of the few law firms in the country with a regulatory affairs practice group, which provides advice on regulatory procedures before the authorities, sanitary legislation, strategy for the management of medicine prices, distribution contracts for the pharmaceutical and food industries, filing, and prosecution of patent applications. Its team comprises IP and competition lawyers, patent engineers,  pharmaceutical chemists, industrial and process engineers, private investigators for anti-counterfeiting cases.

GP has wide experience drafting and prosecuting patent applications for local and international clients from the life sciences industry. In this area, GP provides counseling regarding local patent practice concerning inventions related to antibodies, recombinant DNA, recombinant proteins and vaccines, among other biotechnology creations.

GP also performs the freedom to operate analysis as well as patentability assessments for local and foreign companies. GP has market-leading expertise in handling due diligence and regulatory matters relating to M&A transactions in the pharmaceutical and food sectors, acting for both buyers and sellers. GP provides advice on all medicinal Cannabis regulatory aspects, particularly in relation to how licenses and quotas affect M&A transactions in this industry. The associates also have strong knowledge of the requirements for obtaining the licenses and the quotas.