Life Sciences & Healthcare
In a dynamic environment where changing regulatory requirements, long product cycles, complex intellectual property rights and cost pressure on healthcare pose constant challenges for our clients, we offer you access to our extensive team of savvy experts. Not only are they legally qualified; they also have a deep understanding of the relevant technical and business-related issues in the life sciences and healthcare sectors.
Life Sciences is a key consulting area for our firm, where we have special expertise and proven track record, providing you with comprehensive support with pharmaceuticals, biotech, healthcare, medtech and digital health.
Areas of Expertise
Our specialists can advise you in the following areas in particular:
- Developing intellectual property strategies, patent management and exploitation of intellectual property rights, supplementary protection certificates and extensions of paediatric rights; freedom-to-operate investigations;
- National and cross-border M&A and private equity transactions and financing for pharmaceutical, biotech, healthcare and medtech companies as well as structuring and implementing joint ventures and other cooperation agreements;
- Hospital financing and cooperations;
- Distribution and supply agreements, cooperation agreements, license agreements, manufacturing agreements, research and development agreements, employee invention agreements;
- Patent litigation (infringement proceedings, invalidity proceedings, assignment and ownership disputes, licensing disputes);
- Other commercial arbitration and litigation in the field of life sciences and health care;
- Regulatory advice and compliance regarding the Therapeutic Products Act (regulatory data protection, advice on pharmaceutical products, cooperations with HCPs and HCOs etc.);
- Advertising law regarding therapeutic products, trademark law and other labelling issues regarding pharmaceuticals, biotech and medtech;
- Pricing of therapeutic products and representation before the Federal Office of Public Health
- Competition law advice (price differentiation, distribution channel planning etc.);
- E-health, data management, data protection strategies, advice in connection with digital business ideas and online platforms;
- Outsourcing projects;
- Product recall procedures
Team
- Renato Bucher
- Lukas Bühlmann
- Ulrike Ciesla
- Frédéric Cottier
- Kevin M. Hubacher
- Markus Frank Huber
- L. Mattias Johnson
- Ronald Kogens
- Mark Montanari
- Michael Reinle
- Michael Ritscher
- Marc A. Schamaun
- Daniel Schoch
- Kilian Schärli
- Andrea Sieber
- Mona Stephenson
- Julie Wynne
- Nadine von Büren-Maier
- Daniel Donauer
- Louisa Galbraith
- Daniel Haymann
- Simon Reuter
- Noemi Bünter
- Ada Sofie Altobelli
“The team is very experienced in working as part of an international team on multi-jurisdictional cases and, as well as managing cases in Switzerland, contributes to the development of the case internationally”
Publications
Patent Litigation 2023 Switzerland – Trends and Developments
Chambers and Partners, Global Practice Guides, Patent Litigation 2023, 01 March 2023- EN
Länderreport Schweiz
K&R 1/2023, Kommunikation und Recht, S. 39-42, Januar 2023- DE
Legal Developments in the Swiss Cannabis Market
Chambers and Partners, Expert Focus 2022 Medical Cannabis Switzerland, 15 November 2022- EN
The Legal 500 Country Comparative Guides 2022 – Switzerland: Patent Litigation
The Legal 500 Country Comparative Guides 2022, November 2022- EN