Healthcare

Keystone's Healthcare team comprises specialist solicitors, valued for their ability to deliver innovative and cost-effective solutions within this important sector.

The team works with senior management and in-house legal departments to deliver comprehensive and pragmatic advice.

We regularly advise clients on issues such as mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, capital investment projects, Bribery Act compliance, competition, biotech/drug development and commercial services.  We also advise on a wide range of day-to-day matters, including employment and pensions, procurement, disputes, health & safety, general commercial matters and real estate transactions.

The Healthcare team particularly advise on:

Commercial services (including intellectual property)

• Clinical trial agreements
• Consultancy agreements
• Distribution agreements
• Manufacture of healthcare products
• Material transfer agreements
• Research and development agreements
• Research grant terms
• Protection and exploitation of intellectual property
• Technology assignments
• Technology licensing
• Terms and conditions of sale and service

Corporate services (including competition/anti-trust)

• Anti-trust/competition issues
• Banking and finance
• Company formation/company secretarial
• Companies Act regulation
• Director's' duties
• Equity and convertible equity finance
• Factoring and invoice discounting
• Joint ventures 
• Mergers and Acquisitions 
• Non-disclosure agreements/confidentiality agreements
• Shareholder agreements

Our healthcare clients are predominantly research institutes, funding bodies, life sciences companies and organisations from the public sector.

For further details, please email healthcare@keystonelaw.co.uk or telephone 020 7152 6550 to speak to a Keystone Partner.