Life Sciences
We are life sciences legal specialists with a cross-disciplinary team including our intellectual property, corporate, IT, commercial contracts and data protection teams.
We are life sciences legal specialists with a cross-disciplinary team including our intellectual property, corporate, IT, commercial contracts and data protection teams.
Austin is an award winning-lawyer and a Partner within our Corporate Division in Edinburgh.
We provide a seamless and comprehensive service to our life science clients. Dr Julie Nixon holds a PhD in molecular biology, giving her a unique insight into our life science clients' business requirements and a profound understanding of their intellectual property assets. Julie was a post-doctoral research scientist at Harvard University and University of Edinburgh during her scientific career.
We act for life science spin out companies through to NASDAQ listed corporations. Julie also advised the Roslin Institute at the University of Edinburgh as part of a secondment. Our clients from the medtech, drug development, diagnostics and agriculture/aquaculture sectors include:
We help our life science clients identify their intellectual property assets, protect these assets and advise how best to commercialise products incorporating such intellectual property rights.
Our team has extensive experience advising on angel and venture capital investment and mergers and acquisitions. We acted for Mercia Asset Management PLC on its investment in Invizius Limited, which included advising Mercia on a licence of intellectual property.
We can provide expert data protection advice in relation to medical research and clinical trials.