Our experience enables us to address the specific needs of healthcare / life sciences companies and investors in financing, M&A transactions, and IPOs / capital markets transactions. Our core experience includes:

• Corporate set up, including employment and incentive plans
• Financing of start-ups in all phases
• Spin-offs from universities
• Public and private Mergers & Acquisitions
• Sale and acquisition of companies
• Joint ventures and co-operations
• IPOs and other capital market transactions (years of experience with IPOs of Swiss companies on SIX, NASDAQ, NYSE, Euronext, LSE)

We advise our clients on all forms of collaborations with other market participants in the healthcare sector and on the design of distribution systems.  Our core capabilities include:

• Research and development agreements
• Production and specialization agreements
• Co-marketing and co-promotion agreements
• In-licensing and out-licensing of intellectual property rights
• Design and implementation of distribution systems including e-commerce and online platforms

We cover all areas of regulatory advice in the healthcare sector and advise our clients in particular in the following areas:

• Marketing authorizations for pharmaceutical products and other authorizations under public law
• Pricing and reimbursement claims for therapeutic products
• Data exclusivity and advertising of therapeutic products
• Competition law
• Regulated activities such as clinical trials, human research or genetic research
• Product regulation including product safety and product recalls

Intangible assets are a core resource in the healthcare sector.  We assist our clients in protecting, exploiting and enforcing their rights to intellectual property in the biotechnology, medical device and pharmaceutical sectors, including e-health and data based development.  Our core competencies include:

• Advice on IP strategies to protect business models
• Advice on group IP strategies (including tax)
• Licensing transactions
• Representation before courts and authorities in disputes involving intellectual property rights, including patent litigation
• In-licensing and out-licensing of intellectual property rights

We advise clients in regulatory proceedings and sector-specific disputes, including patent litigation, before government agencies, courts and arbitral tribunals. Our core competencies include:

• Representation in proceedings related to patents, trademarks, copyrights, competition, therapeutic products and other public law matters before authorities and courts
• Representation in civil and criminal proceedings before authorities and courts
• Representation in arbitration proceedings under institutional arbitration rules or in ad hoc proceedings

We advise our clients in all legal and tax matters of biotech and medtech companies. Our core activities include:

• Company set-up, employment law, incentive plans, financing and transactions
• Advice on the development, manufacture and approval of biological and pharmaceutical products and medical devices (including equivalence with EU law)
• Advice on marketing, pricing, discounting, labeling and promotion of medical devices
• Advice on product safety and product liability for medical devices
• Advice in connection with biotechnological inventions
• Advice in connection with the Human Research Act

We specialize in the tax-optimized structuring of :

• Research and development activities (R&D deduction)
• Capitalization of intangible property rights and their amortization
• International licensing, royalties and other income from intellectual property rights (patent box, reduction of withholding taxes)
• Financing rounds, venture capital and private equity investments
• Founder and employee shareholdings and incentive plans
• IPOs, exits (M&A), joint ventures

Electronic data are omnipresent and the requirements for their protection are continuously increasing. This is especially true when health data is are involved. Our core competencies include:

• Data protection-compliant implementation of e-health projects, such as remote diagnostics, digital patient records and healthcare platforms
• Advice on digitization projects in the healthcare sector
• Legally compliant use of cloud solutions
• Cross-border cooperation upon the use of health data
• Preparation of documentation required to ensure data protection compliance