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Life Sciences - Australia

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Band 1

What the Team is Known For

The MinterEllison team offers an outstanding breadth of fully integrated interdisciplinary skills, providing an end-to-end service to clients. In addition to IP and regulatory know-how, the firm's offering includes finance, venture capital, M&A and tax advice. Lawyers and patent attorneys, with an impressive range of technical and scientific qualifications, including those relating to cutting-edge biosciences, act for clients ranging from startups to multinational pharmaceutical and biotech companies, plus many Commonwealth and state-level health departments and agencies, leading hospitals and research institutes, and key life sciences-focussed funds.

Work Highlights

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  • MinterEllison advised Aravax, an investee company of Brandon Capital Partners, on its AUD68 million expanded series B round including sale process design and preparation and negotiation of the investment and governance documents and closing.

Strengths

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MinterEllison has vast experience in transactional document preparation.

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MinterEllison has local and international knowledge and understanding of the biotechnology sector.

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Notable Practitioners

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James Hutton
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James Hutton
3
Band 3

James Hutton is an established figure in the life sciences space, acting for a variety of clients in the sector on matters relating to transactions and capital raisings.

James is good at understanding the impact and what shareholders want, and negotiating a good outcome.

Besides being a fabulous lawyer, he is extremely levelheaded and always finds a solution.

James has deep experience in the sector and provides great advice and service.

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Robert Cooper
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Robert Cooper
3
Band 3

Robert Cooper stands out in the market for his particularly well-regarded representation of pharmaceutical sector players in patent-related matters. He is based in Melbourne.

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Simone Mitchell
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Simone Mitchell
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Band 3

Simone Mitchell is based in Sydney and handles contentious matters, among which patent-related issues feature particularly prominently, for a number of pharmaceutical and medical device companies.

Simone's technical skills, knowledge and experience, as well as, her ability to communicate with stakeholders without a legal background were excellent.

Simone has excellent communication with business people and lawyers, is thorough with analysis and is smart about the budget.

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James Hutton
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James Hutton
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Robert Cooper
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Robert Cooper
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Band 3
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Simone Mitchell
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Simone Mitchell
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Band 3
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