Cases

SKW Schwarz’s cases in Biotech & Life Sciences

• Assisting the Intellectual Property team of one of the largest German pharmaceuticals groups on a regular basis. Advising on trademarks and unfair competition.
• Advising a leading US manufacturer of medical devices in several cross-border R&D projects, as well as on implementing an in-house system for employees’ inventions and patent prosecution.
• Advising a US medical products company on indications of new German legislation on anticorruption in the healthcare sector.
• Advising a private equity-held company on the cross-border acquisition of a company group in the healthcare sector.
• Advising the European subsidiary of a Japanese medical devices company on its distribution contracts and structure within EMEA.
• SKW guides Nobel Ilac, one of the leading pharmaceutical companies of Turkey with a product range from drugs developed and manufactured to licensed OTC products and having an esteemed place among pharmaceutical exporters in Turkey, in contract related issues of life sciences as well as corporate and commercial law.
• Post M&A antitrust advise for an international manufacturer of medical products after the acquisition of another manufacturer and the integration of it’s distribution system.
• Advising the author of a “Code of Practice” commenting subjects of ethical behaviour and compliance designated for members of a leading German association taking an active part as voluntary self-regulation of the pharmaceutical industry.