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BioBrief

Life Sciences

"A top destination for life sciences work"

Manches life sciences team of over 12 lawyers is one of the largest in England, outside of London. Three of the nine specialist pharmaceutical and biotechnology lawyers listed by Legal 500 for the South East of England are partners at Manches and the 2007 Directory quotes Manches as “a top destination for life sciences work”. We are able to use our extensive legal, scientific and industry knowledge to provide our clients with technical excellence and practical, commercially-minded advice. We understand that the life sciences sector is both fast-moving and competitive. Therefore good legal advice is essential at an early stage and throughout an organisation’s life if vital commercial interests are to be properly secured and protected.

Our lawyers act for a wide variety of companies active in the life sciences field and we enjoy building long term relationships with our clients. We regularly attend the BIO and Genesis conferences, in the US and London respectively, and we hold a well-regarded annual life sciences seminar with renowned guest speakers. We take an active role in life sciences industry organisations, including:

Oxfordshire Bioscience Network(founder sponsor)
Thames Valley Life Science Network
Bio Industry Association
Association of Biotech Led Enterprises (India)
South East Health Technologies Alliance

Typical services to clients involve (click on the links for related case study examples):

• Establishment, seed funding and funding rounds
• Setting up spin-outs and joint ventures
• Exit-listing or trade sale
• Collaborative research agreements
• European Framework agreements
• Competion law / Parallel trade
• Use of project results and background technology
• Securing IPR
• In-licensing and out-licensing
• Co-development and co-marketing
• Clinical manufacturing, clinical supply and clinical trials
• Distribution and supply
• Domestic and foreign litigation
• International arbitration
• Human Resources
• Property requirements
• IT infrastructure and acquisition

We also support life sciences businesses in the following areas:

• Company formation and management
• Employment law
• Real estate issues
• Dispute resolution

Oxford/Reading: Jim Kinnier Wilson Patrick Baddeley Piers Clayden Chris Shelley

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