Life Sciences and Healthcare

Advised Bone Therapeutics, addressing high unmet medical needs in orthopaedics and bone diseases, on its €16 million loan financing from the European Investment Bank to support and prepare their lead asset, enhanced viscosupplement JTA-004, for future regulatory approval and commercialisation. Read more here >

Advised NeRRe Therapeutics on its £20 million Series B2 financing round. The financing involved a syndicate of leading transatlantic life sciences investors led by new investor Columbus Venture Partners and existing investors Advent Life Sciences, Fountain Healthcare Partners, Forbion Capital Partners and OrbiMed. Read more here >

Advised global healthcare leader, Grifols on a ~USD 1 billion strategic investment from Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund. Read more here >

Advised Amphista Therapeutics, a leader in next generation targeted protein degradation (TPD) approaches, on its $53 million (£38 million) Series B financing round. Read more.

Advised Grifols on its strategic alliance and investment in Shanghai RAAS.

Advised long-standing client LDC together with the management team on the sale of Penn Pharma in a transaction worth £127m.

Advised on a series A investment in Belgian biotech company Univercells.

Advised Telefonica Alpha (Barcelona) on a software service and the applicability of both healthcare and medical device regulation.

Advised a UK telco on regulatory compliance for a range of proposed 'mhealth' services, including whether the services were healthcare services and/or used medical devices.

Advised a digital primary care healthcare provider on EU and UK health and data regulations, preparing global contracting documentation and insurance advice.

Advised Intrapharm Laboratories Ltd management team and all of its shareholders on the disposal of the company to German pharmaceutical company RIEMSER Pharma GmbH.

Advised the shareholders of a privately held drug discovery company on its acquisition by C4X Discovery Holdings plc in exchange for shares in C4X.

Advised Roche Diagnostics GmbH on the revision of their privacy policy and end-user licence agreements.

Advised Roche Diagnostics GmbH on a cloud-based solution for securely hosting critical medical data in compliance with data protection laws in over 30 countries.

Advised Imperial Innovations Group plc and SV Life Sciences on a £19 million series A investment in Kesios Therapeutics.

Advised the shareholders of First Water on its acquisition by Scapa Group for consideration of up to £15.3m payable depending on performance in 2016, 2017 and 2018.

Advised medical technology Sirigen Group Ltd on its acquisition by Becton, Dickinson and Company, a leading global medical technology company, for an undisclosed sum.

Advised Takeda Ventures, Inc and Takeda Pharmaceuticals on the investment and formation of a drug discovery collaboration with Heptares Therapeutics Ltd.