Chienwen Lin
Partner / TaipeiHealthcare
Global spending on healthcare has reached nearly $7 trillion annually, approximately ten percent of the global GDP. Over seventy percent of this spending occurs in the United States and Europe. It comes as no surprise that for entities such as pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers, research organizations, information technology companies, suppliers, clinical physicians, and insurance firms, the opportunities within the healthcare and life sciences industry are vast and continuously expanding.
These opportunities span locally, nationally, and globally. A community hospital with one hundred beds in Kansas City, USA, intends to establish a joint venture with an outpatient surgical center in St. Louis, staffed by eleven cardiac specialists. A children's hospital in Abu Dhabi aims to collaborate with a teaching hospital in Paris. A medical device manufacturer based in Bonn plans to promote its products in Hong Kong. A pharmaceutical company in Russia is applying for approval from the US Food and Drug Administration for a new anticoagulant product. An electronic medical company headquartered in Barcelona is looking to license its medical record software to an IT consultancy firm in Kampala. While this list may be extensive, law firms capable of handling the various matters on this list are relatively few.
Law firms capable of handling such matters must have offices both locally and globally. They must possess a team of lawyers with decades of experience in the healthcare and life sciences industry to navigate organizations through the ever-changing political, regulatory, and economic landscapes. These firms must understand the healthcare delivery systems in each jurisdiction—from manufacturers, distributors, suppliers, patients, sponsors to decision-makers. Such law firms must be able to provide a wide range of strategic transactional, regulatory, and dispute resolution advisory services for each market participant mentioned above.
As a law firm with 79 offices in 52 countries across four continents, comprising over 100 lawyers, consultants, and policy professionals dedicated to providing legal services to healthcare and life science organizations throughout their entire careers, we take pride in the significant achievements of such law firms.
Whether you are in pharmaceuticals, veterinary drugs, medical devices, diagnostics, biotechnology, life science research, plant biology, crop science, agriculture, or "edgier" product sectors such as nutritional supplements, food additives, and food products, we understand your business.
Every day, we advise clients in the life sciences sector on how best to tackle the challenges of developing and commercializing products, providing diversified services, and leveraging scientific breakthroughs and business opportunities globally. In addition to our seamless collaboration among lawyers worldwide, we work closely with research institutions, scientific leaders, healthcare economists, drug experts, and management consultants to provide comprehensive and commercially targeted services you need.
If you need funding, we can help. Our lawyers are involved in numerous public offerings, venture capital investments, mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, technology transfer transactions, university spin-offs, and initial financing projects.
Want to capitalize on your innovation? We have designed complex structures for licensing, distribution, joint promotion, development, and manufacturing agreements. From research and development to manufacturing, intellectual property protection and obtaining patient consent, market marketing, and sales, we can provide the knowledge and support you need to keep your projects running while reducing risks to help you avoid costly delays and complications.
When compliance issues, investigations, lawsuits, or threats of bribery, corruption, and transparency regulations threaten your focus on improving health business, our unparalleled preparation and in-depth understanding of legal regulations and your business will lighten your burden.
Life Sciences
Whether you are in pharmaceuticals, veterinary drugs, medical devices, diagnostics, biotechnology, life science research, plant biology, crop science, agriculture, or "edgier" product sectors such as nutritional supplements, food additives, and food products, we understand your business.
Every day, we advise clients in the life sciences sector on how best to tackle the challenges of developing and commercializing products, providing diversified services, and leveraging scientific breakthroughs and business opportunities globally. In addition to our seamless collaboration among lawyers worldwide, we work closely with research institutions, scientific leaders, healthcare economists, drug experts, and management consultants to provide comprehensive and commercially targeted services you need.
If you need funding, we can help. Our lawyers are involved in numerous public offerings, venture capital investments, mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, technology transfer transactions, university spin-offs, and initial financing projects.
Want to capitalize on your innovation? We have designed complex structures for licensing, distribution, joint promotion, development, and manufacturing agreements. From research and development to manufacturing, intellectual property protection and obtaining patient consent, market marketing, and sales, we can provide the knowledge and support you need to keep your projects running while reducing risks to help you avoid costly delays and complications.
When compliance issues, investigations, lawsuits, or threats of bribery, corruption, and transparency regulations threaten your focus on improving health business, our unparalleled preparation and in-depth understanding of legal regulations and your business will lighten your burden