Mills & Reeve LLP has a large, cross-office life sciences practice led by experienced partner James Fry in Cambridge. The firm is a key adviser to numerous global organisations, among them GSK, as well as new startups, high-growth companies, and highly regarded university research groups. The multi-disciplinary offering service calls up on funds specialist Dona Ardeman, corporate partner Jonathan Greenwood, employment expert Melanie James, corporate finance adviser Zickie Lim and many others to support biotechnology clients. Fry recently assisted F-star Therapeutics with a collaboration and licence agreement with a global pharmaceutical company.
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Key clients
- GSK
- Illumina
- CMR Surgical
- Neurocrine Biosciences
- F-star Therapeutics
- Coloplast
- NRG Therapeutics
- PhoreMost
- Instil Bio
- Calypso Biotech
- Sphere Fluidics
- Sanger Institute
- Wavebreak Therapeutics
- Mission Therapeutics
- Oxford Biomedica
- ImmuOne
- Kadans
- Amano Enzyne
- Rinri Therapeutics
- RNAvate
- Pivotal Earth
Work highlights
- Advised F-star Therapeutics on its strategic discovery collaboration and licence agreement with global pharmaceutical company Takeda. Also advised F-star on its second licence agreement with Takeda for the further development of a novel next-generation immuno-oncology bispecific antibody.
- Advised Orbit Service Partners Inc., an emerging provider of innovative solutions in the field of public health, on a groundbreaking licence and collaboration agreement with Verily, an Alphabet precision health technology company based in South San Francisco, USA, to introduce the Debug programme in Barbados and the Caribbean.
- Acted for Autolus Therapeutics Limited on the grant of a lease of Nucleus, Stevenage from Forge Life Sciences (a joint venture between Reef Group and UBS). The property is a 70,000 square foot purpose built GMP manufacturing facility in Stevenage. Provided assistance on real estate and construction works throughout the matter from development to completion of the facility.
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James Fry