CMS houses an ‘exceptional’ team, which handles a myriad of issues for clients, including clinical trials, financings, and care delivery within senior living and social care settings. Practice co-head Candice Blackwood‘s area of expertise is advising health operators and investors on development funding work and the management of senior living and healthcare assets. Co-head Sarah Hanson has a great deal of experience in acting for technology and pharmaceutical companies in transactional matters, while co-head Robert Stephen focuses on patent protection issues surrounding vaccines, antibody production, and microbiome technology. Shuna Mason is particularly proficient in advising clients on regulatory and product liability matters, often handling policy work for trade bodies. Rachel Cooper has broad regulatory expertise, often acting for healthcare professionals in disciplinary hearings and coroner’s inquest proceedings.
Testimonials
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‘Always responsive, extremely well informed, and pragmatic.’
‘The team is exceptional, they are commercial, sensible, responsive, and available.’
Key clients
- Alliance Pharmaceuticals
- Advanz Pharma
Work highlights
- Advised Instadeep on its sale to BioNTech. The transaction is valued at approximately £362m.
- Advised Moorfields Eye Hospital on a new hospital to be built under the new hospitals programme in Kings Cross London. As well as acting on the sale of the existing Victorian Hospital and the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, creating the joint venture between MEH and UCL, the firm provided real estate, planning, development, and construction advice and corporate, tax, procurement, regulatory and risk management advice.