Osborne Clarke
Osborne Clarke focuses on providing advice to clients in the life sciences, TMT, and retail sectors, with a capacity for handling a wide array of corporate governance, transactional, and commercial matters. David Haex is very active on mid-market M&A and venture capital transactions, while Stefan Deswert assists with a wide array of commercial agreements as well as carve-out matters with IP elements. Hadrien Chef, who stands out for providing corporate advice to biotech and medtech clients, is also highly recommended.
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Testimonials
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‘The team are always one step ahead and have a particular drive to understand our business and the needs of our legal team.’
‘David Haex and Frank Hoogendijk are particularly recommended for their pragmatic approach.’
‘The team I worked with was both very strong in legal and technical topics and also able to give advice on the strategy to negotiate the clauses.’
‘Hadrien Chef is a top-level professional. He manages the case and the team with pragmatism and experience. He motivates the team and has a eye on every detail. He has a certain sense of business that helps to see legal input as a negotiation asset.'
'Violette Keppenne is a very reliable, collaborative and hard-working team member. She strives for excellence in everything she does. ’
‘We appreciated working with OC. The team was extremely available and could deliver extremely qualitative work in a short period of time. The team delivers faster than expected and exceeds expectations.'
‘The team was extremely available and took sufficient time to inform us and give us everything we needed to make the right decisions.'
Key clients
- BioSenic
- FSM Group
- Qinetiq
- The Adecco Group
- Sunrise
- Merchery
- Allcargo Logistics
- Cream Consulting
- Audiense
- Acapela
- OncoDNA
- Xerox
- P&V Assurances
Work highlights
- Advised Bone Therapeutics (now BioSenic) on a reversed merger with the French company Medsenic.
- Advised the FSM Group on its sale to the Ambitious People Group.
- Advised QinetiQ on its sale of QinetiQ Space to Redwire for €32m.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
David Haex, Stefan Deswert