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Life Sciences

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 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.

Austin Flynn
Partner

Austin is an award winning-lawyer and a Partner within our Corporate Division in Edinburgh.

0131 516 5590
Contact me
austin.flynn@morton-fraser.com

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:

  • Clinspec Diagnostics Limited
  • Neurocentrx Pharma Limited
  • Softcell Medical Limited
  • Neemco Limited
  • Carcinotech Ltd
  • MGB Biopharma Limited
  • Scotland's Rural University College (SRUC)

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.