Overview
Guiding life sciences clients with global insight and cross-practice expertise
Developments in pharmaceuticals, biotech and MedTech are reshaping healthcare, offering new possibilities alongside complex legal and regulatory demands. Our work spans M&A and IP licensing, antitrust, litigation and international arbitration, data protection, product liability, and regulatory matters – supporting clients as they navigate this rapidly changing environment.
To deliver this, Freshfields provides a fully connected global team, helping clients with their most critical matters. We are deep-rooted in the industry with experience that informs everything we do. Many of our lawyers have scientific backgrounds and bring first-hand life sciences industry experience.
We have supported companies at various stages of growth, from early stage biotechs to large multinationals and investors.
Amid rapid global change, we are positioned to advise clients with new and ever-changing challenges. AI is driving rapid change in the way the life sciences industry approaches research, development and regulatory challenges. It is creating significant opportunities, alongside data and oversight concerns. Environmental considerations are prompting new reporting obligations. Competition authorities are becoming more rigorous in assessing life sciences and healthcare transactions. By tracking and anticipating these shifts globally, we help clients adapt to—and anticipate—change.
About Freshfields
With a team of approximately 500 lawyers, Freshfields is a leading firm in the US for corporate, litigation and regulatory matters. Clients repeatedly entrust Freshfields with their most critical mandates due to our strategic, pragmatic and client-centric approach.
With a deep bench of top-tier lawyers, we bring clients an integrated approach that seamlessly spans practices areas and geographies from Silicon Valley and San Francisco to New York, Boston and Washington, DC, with more than 20 additional offices across Europe, the Middle East and Asia.