DLA Piper's life sciences team comprises approximately 30 corporate, IP, regulatory, compliance, investigations, capital markets, employment and tax lawyers. In Shanghai, China patent practice head Ting Xiao advises on high-profile life sciences, IP and regulatory matters; and Qiang Li advises Chinese life sciences companies on transactional work. Over in Hong Kong, Sammy Fang is a compliance and investigations specialist, while Christine Liu focuses on life sciences-related corporate investigations and compliance.

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Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘DLA Piper gives targeted consideration to the corporate legal needs of big healthcare companies and provides a lot of training on related topics, which is great help.’

  • ’In terms of data law, privacy protection and antitrust, DLA Piper's partners are of extremely high quality and have a lot of resources.’

  • ‘Ting Xiao provides unique insights and high-quality legal services.’
  • ‘Sammy Fang has excellent response levels and can always deliver very suitable resources for the resolution of issues.’

  • ‘Sammy Fang is able to coordinate the resources of both Hong Kong and mainland China very well, making the cooperation very smooth and efficient.’

Key clients

  • MITRO Biotech Co

Work highlights

  • Served as the global coordinating counsel for General Electric Company, in relation to its restructuring of healthcare businesses.
  • Assisting the shareholders of YS Biopharma Co with its ongoing battle for control of YS Biopharma.
  • Advised MITRO Biotech Co, a China-based global molecular imaging contract research organisation company, on its acquisition of US-based biomarker imaging company, XingImaging.

Lawyers

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Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Ting Xiao, Sammy Fang

Other key lawyers

Qiang Li, Christine Liu