Life Sciences - Dispute Resolution

Minimising the impact, maximising the outcome

Whether you own or manage a start-up, SME or you are a part of a large multinational organisation, disputes within the business, with commercial partners or with third parties can prove a significant distraction from the everyday running of your life sciences business.

We have experience of working with companies in a wide variety of life sciences businesses, including national and international clients in the pharmaceutical, healthcare, dentistry, non-surgical aesthetics, health supplements, and skincare sectors. We can help clients to resolve both industry-specific issues, and more general contractual, brand enforcement and other legal disputes.

How our life sciences solicitors can support you

Our expertise spans the entire dispute resolution spectrum, including international disputes and intellectual property disputes in the Life Sciences sector, ensuring comprehensive support whatever issues your business is facing.

Our expert Life Sciences Team has a wealth of experience in resolving commercial disputes through litigation, arbitration, mediation and negotiation, to help you achieve an effective, cost-efficient resolution.

Work highlights

• Acting on trademark infringement and passing off disputes in the healthcare, skincare and non-surgical aesthetics sectors.
• Acting in an international dispute involving an ICC arbitration between parties in France, USA and the UK, relating to the supply and manufacture of pharmaceuticals.
• Acting in relation to a dispute with UK Border Force over the need for an import permit under CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora).
• Acting on a shareholder dispute relating to a healthcare company.
• Acting in relation to a dispute with HMRC over the classification of goods for import duty purposes.