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Provided by Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates
Skadden counsels health care and life sciences clients in the areas of transactional, litigation and enforcement, regulatory, finance and intellectual property matters. We represent companies and investors around the globe in every sector of the industry, including pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies; hospital and health care systems; long-term care facilities; and other service providers. We work with clients on matters of all sizes, from the largest mergers in the industry to smaller, early-stage transactions.
Our attorneys provide our clients with a unique combination of leading transactional capabilities, as well as broad regulatory and litigation experience.
Our clients include one-half of the top 40 global pharmaceutical companies and one-quarter of the top 40 global medical device companies (by market capitalization), as well as numerous emerging biotechnology and health care businesses. Some of the largest publicly traded and not-for-profit health care systems are represented by our attorneys. Skadden has been included among the leading law firms by LMG Life Sciences in its 2016 rankings. We ranked first by value in global pharma and biotech M&A by mergermarket for 2015. Skadden also was named both Health Care and Life Sciences Groups of the Year by Law360 for 2014.
