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Life Sciences: Transactional - UK-wide

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What the Team is Known For

Taylor Wessing has an excellent transactional practice built on years of commitment to the sector, advising on collaboration, licensing, corporate and venture capital deals. It has a powerful patent litigation offering acting for generics and branded manufacturers that has pioneering experience handling cases involving biosimilar products. The team is also recommended for EPO patent oppositions.

Work Highlights

  • Taylor Wessing advised PAION on the roll-out of a new global licensing and distribution programme for its anesthesia portfolio, including its Byfavo™ injectable product.

Strengths

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Taylor Wessing provide prompt response times and business-oriented guidance. They are able to dive into unique issues and find creative solutions.

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Taylor Wessing offer deep expertise in a seamless manner across multiple jurisdictions.

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Taylor Wessing are excellent; they are knowledgeable and professional, and they take the time to understand our often niche and complex industry.

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Taylor Wessing offer deep expertise in a seamless manner across multiple jurisdictions. We don't know what we would do without them.

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They were unfazed by the complexity and challenges, providing helpful visibility and guidance on key decisions. They provided a first-class service.

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Notable Practitioners

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Alison Dennis
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Alison Dennis is called on by leading sector clients to advise them on the compliance of their products with various regulatory regimes and their transactions. She acts for market leaders in biotech, medical devices and pharmaceuticals.

Alison is very responsive, and her ability to find solutions and mitigate risk is refreshing.

Alison has a deep understanding of our business. She responds quickly and authoritatively and coordinates with counsel in numerous other countries.

Alison has voluminous knowledge and is friendly and approachable.

Alison Dennis has exceptional understanding of regulatory impacts on the UK industry.

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Matthew Royle
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Matthew Royle frequently represents pharmaceutical manufacturers in contentious work regarding patent infringement claims, revocation actions and secondary-use SPCs. He is particularly well known for coordinating IP litigation across Europe, including before the UPC. Prior to his legal career, he undertook a doctorate in medical microbiology.

Matthew always offers an excellent service and is very responsive.

Matthew is adept at coordinating litigation across Europe and the USA, including handling cases before the UPC.

Matthew Royle is a go-to name for life sciences, and has knowledge of the regulatory side as well as of IP.

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Simon Cohen
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Simon Cohen is commended for his deft handling of patent revocation and SPC disputes. He regularly advises on and coordinates pan-European litigation strategies.
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Andrew Edge
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Andrew Edge is highly regarded for his expertise in M&A and equity capital markets, advising pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.

Andrew is hugely commercial and knows everything that goes on at our business. He is hyper-supportive.

Andrew Edge is a class act with a great skill set.

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Nigel Stoate
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Nigel Stoate is renowned for his patent litigation work before UK courts and coordinates Europe-wide disputes strategy. His skill set takes in mechanical and electrical engineering cases as well as disputes concerned with pharmaceuticals.

Nigel is adept at coordinating litigation across Europe and the USA, including cases before the UPC.

Nigel's indispensable expertise and leadership have been instrumental in managing our most complex and high-stakes cases. He has a keen understanding of when to mitigate risk and when to litigate.

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Life Sciences: IP/Patent Litigation
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Matthew Royle
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Simon Cohen
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Nigel Stoate
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Life Sciences: Regulatory
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Alison Dennis
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Life Sciences: Transactional
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Alison Dennis
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Andrew Edge
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