Bird & Bird's international life sciences regulatory team advises on clinical trials, advertising, litigation, classification of medical devices, advanced therapy medicinal products, and marketing authorisations. The team is also well known for high-value litigation involving pharmaceutical and life science patents. Alison Wong heads up the firm’s Asia-Pacific life sciences and healthcare sector group from Hong Kong; while the workload of James Gong in Beijing encompasses compliance, privacy and cybersecurity issues.

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Key clients

  • Alphamab Oncology
  • King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology
  • Merck
  • Edward Life Sciences
  • Stryker
  • iNova
  • Hong Kong Centre of Cerebro-cardiovascular Engineering

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Alison Wong

Other key lawyers

James Gong, Christine Yiu, Jang-Sae Pang