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Life sciences and healthcare

McDermott Will & Emery UK LLP

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The ‘highly collaborative’ team at McDermott Will & Emery UK LLP has broad expertise in medtech and remote medicine issues, often acting for technology, biotech and pharmaceutical clients. Practice head Sharon Lamb maintains a strong transaction-focused practice, advising on M&A and joint venture arrangements for digital health and life sciences companies. ‘Truly stand-out’ practitioner Hamid Yunis has longstanding expertise in public-private partnerships and corporate financing issues within the healthcare space. Associate David Gibson is particularly adept at handling matters concerning procurements, outsourcings and private patient services. The ‘exceptional’ Gary Howes has vast knowledge spanning commercial contracts and patent licensing agreements.

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Testimonials

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  • They are highly collaborative, serving as a trusted counsel for our key stakeholders alike.'
  • 'The team's strengths and key capabilities are the breadth and depth of their knowledge and experience. We consider MWE to be our core partner and are proud to work with them as a firm.’

  • ‘Hamid Yunis is truly stand-out.’

  • ‘Excellent ability to understand licenses. Good US practice means understands the bigger picture for dealing with UK companies.’

  • ‘Gary Howes is exceptional.'

Key clients

  • Fortius Clinic
  • Zura Bio Limited
  • BehaVR, Inc.
  • Auctus
  • PharmaLex Group
  • Summit Partners
  • Elite Body Sculpture
  • Cleveland Clinic London
  • Africa Cancer Control Partners, LLC.
  • Community Health and Eyecare Limited

Work highlights

  • Advised Fortius Clinic on its transaction to acquire Schoen Clinic London from Schoen Clinic Group, a German hospital group.
  • Advising Elite Body Sculpture on its non-US expansion plans in the UK, Canada and the UAE. The firm advising on strategic, healthcare regulatory, corporate, tax, commercial, privacy, employment, and real estate matters.
  • Advised Zura Bio Limited on its business combination with JATT Acquisition Corp in a deSPAC transaction.

Lawyers

Rising stars

David Gibson

David Gibson

McDermott Will & Emery LLP

David is an associate, he focuses his practice on commercial health care, with a background in providing commercial, corporate and financial advice to health care clients. His areas of specialty include procurement, outsourcing and “insourcing” of clinical and non-clinical health care services, private patient services, health care regulatory, advice on medical device regulations as well as leading specialist projects, such as the NHS Proton Beam project. Visit our website for more: https://www.mwe.com/people/gibson-david/

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Sharon Lamb

Other key lawyers

Hamid Yunis, David Gibson, Gary Howes

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