Life Sciences and Healthcare

We’re at the forefront of legal expertise in life sciences and healthcare. Whether you're starting a new business or growing your portfolio, we offer sector experience and legal expertise in intellectual property and IT, corporate governance, commercial contracts, employment law and data protection to help you achieve your goals.

Serving the healthcare sector

The healthcare sector is known for its complexity, linked with technological, regulatory, and organisational challenges. We can your needs with a comprehensive mix of legal knowledge. 

 

Our experience is extensive, as we work with clients from innovative life science startups to NASDAQ-listed companies and major NHS boards. This ability to deliver tailored solutions across the healthcare spectrum truly sets us apart. 

The team have shown a strong grasp of the topics and at each turn have been able to guide us through a very challenging contractual dispute.

Chambers and Partners

Highly professional, client-centric with prompt, yet reliable response times and expert subject matter across various aspects. Always positive, calm and calculated, which has a positive effect on the client.

LEGAL 500

Partners are personally involved, solution-focused and skilled at representing clients. They demonstrate excellent commerciality and deliver excellent outcomes in complex transactions.

Chambers and Partners

The team has a deep understanding of the sector, provides an excellent service in terms of responses and focuses on the real issues, whilst able to move beyond any challenges faced with practical solutions

Legal 500

The team have shown a strong grasp of the topics and at each turn have been able to guide us through a very challenging contractual dispute.

Chambers and Partners

The team are always able to provide advice.

Chambers and Partners

Highly professional, client-centric with prompt, yet reliable response times and expert subject matter across various aspects. Always positive, calm and calculated, which has a positive effect on the client.

LEGAL 500

Partners are personally involved, solution-focused and skilled at representing clients. They demonstrate excellent commerciality and deliver excellent outcomes in complex transactions.

Chambers and Partners

The team has a deep understanding of the sector, provides an excellent service in terms of responses and focuses on the real issues, whilst able to move beyond any challenges faced with practical solutions

Legal 500

What truly sets the individuals at MFMac apart is their ability to combine deep technical knowledge with a responsive, client-focused mindset and exceptional coordination.

LEGAL 500

The firm has a real focus on listening to the customer and meeting their needs and expectations.

Chambers and Partners

High integrity and deep sector knowledge defines MFMac work.

Chambers and Partners

Partners are personally involved, solution-focused and skilled at representing clients. They demonstrate excellent commerciality and deliver excellent outcomes in complex transactions.

Chambers and Partners

Nothing is too much trouble and they always respond in a timely manner.

Chambers and Partners

Excellent and practical procurement advice and guidance is provided by the team.

Chambers and Partners

The team has excellent awareness of all the important aspects of a matter from knowledge of the courts, the law and the members of the Bar.

Chambers and Partners

MFMac is an efficient firm that is knowledgeable on the topics and quick to understand.

Chambers and Partners

The teams I have encountered have always been very easy to engage with. The teams appear to have a good mix of skills relevant for each task.

LEGAL 500

The team has good listening and interpersonal skills, making it very easy to work with.

LEGAL 500

MFMac stands out for its ability to deliver technically excellent, commercially astute advice through a highly collaborative and coordinated approach. What makes our practice unique is the seamless integration of specialist teams across corporate, commercial, real estate, tax, and international matters, allowing us to deliver clear, pragmatic advice that aligns with our clients’ strategic objectives.

LEGAL 500

Comprehensive sector expertise

Our expertise lies in navigating the complex interplay of legal and commercial challenges in healthcare. We have a proven track record in areas like intellectual property asset identification and protection, significant healthcare project advice under PFI and PPP schemes, and comprehensive legal services in mergers and acquisitions.  

 

Our expertise in advising on angel and venture capital investments is underscored by our high-value contract work, notably with Terumo Aortic UK and with Mercia Asset Management PLC's investment in Invizius Limited, which also included the associated licensing of its intellectual property. 

 

We regularly act on the sale and acquisition of care homes, such as with Creggan Bahn Limited and Renaissance Care. Our legal guidance has also been instrumental in the restructuring of prominent groups like the Meallmore Group.

Your trusted legal partner

Our approach is built on collaboration. By building a long-term relationship with you, we can better understand your unique needs and challenges. This partnership ethos has underpinned successful outcomes for our clients, like our assistance to HSBC in restructuring deals and our proactive work with start-ups in the medtech, diagnostics, and agriculture and aquaculture sectors. Ultimately, our goal extends beyond legal advice. We aim to be your strategic ally in growth and success. 

Medical Device timeline

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Planning

Funding options - commercial investment, grants 

Collaboration arrangements 

Patent applications and royalty arrangements 

Brand development 

Data privacy by design - collection of data for research - market studies, competitor studies 

Jurisdictional considerations (different regulators, appointment of UK Responsible Person) 

Product classifications - risk management 

Developing

Device registration with MHRA (eg UKCA marking), EU reg (eg CE marking) 

Contracting out elements of process (eg prototype-design) 

Supply chain issues - commercial contract - supply components have to be medical grade 

Implementation of systems and recording project documentation (eg QMS)

Design controls - safety, meeting requirements, ability to manufacture

Employment concers (eg confidentiality) 

Pre-Market Testing

Safety - rigorous pre-market trials (submitting docs for approval)

Design reviews

Regulatory issues throughout testing (eg biocompatibility, DP) 

Commercial contracts re clinical trials (eg informed consent) 

Inspections and auditing 

Commercialising

Placing medical device on market (agents/distributors/consultants) 

Product liability/ insurance 

Packaging issues (sterlization) & labelling issues

Advertising

Commercialising/protecting IP 

UK Responsible Person

Market expansion 

Using & Maintaining

Lifetime/ storage conditions - single use?

Interaction with regulator (eg what if changes made to product once on market)

Training

Data protection & cybersecurity 

Instructions for use

Post-Market Studying

Mandatory reporting obligations

Data and AI - Post market studies on databases 

Post-market surveillence to monitor performance - clinical follow-up studies - ensuring long-term

Arrangements with hospitals 

Training - other surgeons how they use the product - regulated

Withdrawing

Withdrawing from market - regulatory compliance / product recall

Disposal

Contractual liabilities - with commercial partners / users - commercial

Ongoing data protection - what happens? 

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