Life Sciences and MedTech Get your deal right
We advise domestic and international clients – from startups to SMEs – in biotech, pharma and medtech on structuring and negotiating industry-specific agreements and represent them in litigation before the courts of Munich and across Germany. Our practice is based on our expertise gained over the years in these highly regulated sectors and our ability to contribute to complex cross-functional matters.
Agreements in the life sciences are crucial for your business success. We are aware of the legal niceties of common-law-based templates used in the industry and how to align them with the mandatory requirements of German law. Based on our hands-on experience in cross-border matters, we are in a position to navigate our international clients through the legal complexities of doing business in Germany and with German partners.
Your success in Germany requires a solid foundation from the start. We have the experience.
Our Services
We advise and support clients in particular in the following areas:
- research and development agreements
- CRO agreements
- collaboration agreements
- licence agreements
- master service agreements (MSAs)
- consulting agreements
- confidentiality agreements (CDAs/NDAs)
- material transfer agreements (MTAs)
- clinical trial agreements
- service agreements
- process development agreements and technology transfer agreements
- contract manufacturing agreements and responsibility allocation agreements
- strategic alliances
- university collaborations
- supply and distribution agreements
- developing, updating and maintaining legal templates and guidance materials to align with German law, namely German law on standard terms and conditions
- general civil and commercial law
- competition law, including health care advertising law
- liability and insurance matters
Our Edge
Our life sciences and medtech practice is built on broad experience from a range of roles in the industry, including in-house positions. For some of our clients we act as their external legal department when entering into the German market. That first-hand industry perspective enables us to balance legal risks with business objectives: We know the commercial, scientific and operational realities behind the deal.
Our advice is both pragmatic and legally sound. Practical experience – contentious and non-contentious – in liability and insurance matters, e.g. in product liability cases, informs our contract drafting and negotiations to mitigate our clients’ risks and those of their directors, officers and employees.
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