Pharmaceutical

In Matthew Arnold & Baldwin LLP’s Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Sector, our mission statement is “Bringing Excellence To Life, Together”. We are passionate about working with our clients in the life sciences sector and delivering to them an excellent service, to help them in turn deliver excellence for the people they work with in that sector.

We believe in developing and looking to achieve best practice. That is not just our own, but we work together to help our clients to develop their excellence too. We host networking and learning events, where businesses in the pharmaceuticals and life sciences sector learn from and help each other to grow and develop and overcome challenges together.

Through our work with our clients and the events we run, we have built up a network of good contacts in the industry. Therefore, whether you are looking for leading recruiters in the sector to acquire new staff, an expert to help you get through clinical trials, research labs, or someone with pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities, we can work together to put you in touch with the right people.

We actively take part in thought leadership to help to bring excellence to life.

But that’s only part of the value-added service we offer to help to bring excellence to life, together.

We also happen to be lawyers and we provide legal services to pharmaceutical and life sciences sector businesses.

Rather than just provide a legal service to clients that happen to be in pharmaceuticals and life sciences, our ethos is to fully understand their businesses and the issues they face and the challenges and opportunities that exist in the sector, especially in times of huge change.

We serve clients who are looking for service quality, expertise, sector experience, price, convenience of location, commerciality in advice and a one-stop shop. We have the skills, expertise and experience that they need for legal service through their lifetime, whether that is in fund raising, acquisition, inward or outward product licensing, intellectual property protection, using assets to leverage more money, premises, staff issues, supply and manufacture, data protection, resolving disputes or disposal.

Examples of services we have provided:
• Provision of international distribution agreements for UK supplier, including advice on issues arising out of dealing with local customs in foreign countries.
• Drafting contract for multi-national pharmaceutical company for their conversion and supply of products from a prescription basis to a category P licence.
• Advising start-up on shareholders’ agreement and supply agreement for novel new product delivery.
• Guiding generics company on dealing with various employment challenges.
• Completing the disposal of a pharmaceuticals business that involved complex issues across four time zones.
• Helping specialist pharmaceutical wholesaler to move to new fit-for-purpose premises.
• Negotiating manufacturing agreement for over-the-counter brand.
• Advising on asset-backed funding facility for company that re-energises existing branded products for supply to underserved patient populations.
• Protecting the intellectual property rights in material developed for our client.
• Successfully obtaining judicial review of selection of medicines by NHS.
• Advising on the supply of information to the NHS.