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Biotechnology
Imagine. Investigate. Innovate.
The use of biological systems to make or modify pharmaceutical, industrial and agricultural products and processes is a source of great hope and potential. But it comes with substantial controversy, significant and diverse risks and a substantial thirst for investment capital.
If you want to participate in this promising market, you have to produce great science — and diligently document and protect your innovations.You have to be alert to the fast-evolving, sometimes difficult, regulatory landscape. And you need to be ever adaptable, continuously considering and forming alliances and ventures or licensing technologies to advance your scientific and business goals — and keep capital flowing.
At Baker & McKenzie, we offer a strong, growing team of scientifically knowledgeable, business-savvy lawyers who concentrate their practice on issues and needs of biotech clients — from research and clinical trial to regulatory review, freedom to operate investigations to patent litigation, alliances to acquisitions, and from private equity and venture capital to public offerings and corporate compliance.
How We Can Help
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Mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures — We provide counsel on ways to structure your organization, acquire new and promising research and products, and all aspects of joint ventures, alliances and associations.
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Patent portfolio management — We construct portfolios that protect the variety of ways products might be used and lay stronger claim to ownership.
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Licensing and commercial agreements — We negotiate and draft contracts for licensing and sale of biotech products and processes, ranging from monoclonal antibodies to seeds to industrial enzymes and nanotechnology.
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Disputes and liability — We help avoid the costs and distractions of disputes by taking a holistic view of your science, agreements and intellectual property. If needed, we offer comprehensive mediation, arbitration and litigation services.
- Research guidance — We perform thorough, efficient Freedom to Operate reviews that let you advance research, without waiting for complex and costly analysis, and provide "design-around" options to avoid patent infringement.
- IP protection — We monitor and investigate competitors to ensure your products are not illegally sold and your intellectual property is not fraudulently taken.
- Regulatory regimes — We assist you through each stage of the regulatory process: from obtaining the necessary permits to operate a biotech facility to early stage research to clinical trials and approval. We also defend against regulatory agency enforcement action.
- Environmental compliance — With a presence in every region of the world, we can help you understand and adapt to the cultural, economic and political sensitivities related to biotech issues such as genetically modified organisms.
- Tax strategies and credits — We help biotech companies realise the benefits of research tax credits and devise, document and defend global transfer pricing and tax planning strategies as the companies evolve into profitmaking enterprises.
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