Life Sciences
Salans' Global Life Sciences Group is recognised as one of the leading international Life Sciences practices. In 2009, for the third consecutive year, Chambers Europe ranked the group among the best Life Sciences practices in both France (Band 1) and Poland (Band 2).
Lawyers in the Group are skilled in areas including regulatory, product liability, litigation, corporate, mergers and acquisitions, competition, and intellectual property.
Our Approach
The Life Sciences Group consists of more than 30 Life Sciences experts across Salans' 22 offices. Members of the group represent multiple jurisdictions, and they work in many languages, including English, French, German, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Spanish and Turkish. Local Life Sciences teams regularly cooperate on international matters and share their skills and experience in order to provide high-quality service to clients wherever they do business.
Our truly multi-disciplinary and multi-jurisdictional approach combined with a thorough understanding of clients' needs enable a “one-stop, full-service” capability to be provided to all our clients, an important feature in the Life Sciences sector where legal issues frequently involve an analysis of different sets of rules arising out of multiple jurisdictions.
The Group’s comprehensive legal services are complemented by close collaboration with other professionals, within and outside the firm, such as patent and trademark counsel, research institutes, leaders in scientific opinion, pharma-economic experts and management advisers, in order to provide our clients with an all-round, commercially-focused service.
Our Clients
Salans' Global Life Sciences Group advises clients active in diverse areas, such as human and veterinary drugs, medical devices, cosmetics, and "border" products such as nutraceuticals and food products.
Our clients in this sector span private companies, research centres and foundations, healthcare establishments, and healthcare service providers. We advise both manufacturers and distributors of medicinal products (OTC and prescription drugs).
Industry Affiliations
Salans' Life Sciences lawyers are recognised as leaders in their jurisdictions and deal regularly with all relevant bodies, including the relevant public regulators, associations of healthcare professionals, and industry associations.
Life Sciences Legal Services
Our expertise in Life Sciences covers advisory, transactional and regulatory work, as well as litigation. We regularly provide our clients with:
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Access to our integrated network of lawyers conversant with the principles and practical applications of the various areas of law in the healthcare sector, such as laws on the placing on the market and use of healthcare products, mergers / acquisitions and joint ventures, competition law, distribution law, personal liability, the disciplinary law of healthcare professionals, hospital law, healthcare contracts law and intellectual property law;
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Regular updates on the national and international legal issues specific to healthcare and unrivalled knowledge of their implications;
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Timely responses to urgent situations (such as management of product recalls at national or international level; provision of crisis management units to handle the risk of increased liability and expedited court orders and injunctions);
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Organisation and management of internal compliance and competition audits, as well as assistance in dealing with investigations undertaken by national or EU competition authorities, governmental authorities and internal compliance teams; and,
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A command of the scientific and pharma-economic tools and data necessary to assist clients to understand complex healthcare issues and take appropriate actions.
What Others Say
“Demonstrating multiple skills in the sector, Salans boasts a superb life sciences group and a sterling reputation in the French market to match.”
“A well-recognised name on the market, Salans' Warsaw office is commended for its solid performance in the life sciences sector.” Chambers Europe