Colin Kavanagh
Colin is Head of the Life Sciences team
Our Life Sciences Group is a market leader in the provision of legal services to the Life Sciences industry, with a multi-disciplinary practice group combining the very best of the firm’s corporate, commercial, transactional, regulatory, competition and intellectual property expertise to serve Ireland’s pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical devices, food and cosmetics industries. Our expertise in life sciences is also acknowledged by our peers in foreign jurisdictions – we are regularly instructed to act as the Irish legal adviser in global transactions by both the world’s largest legal firms and by boutique life sciences legal firms.
OUR EXPERTISE
We offer experienced legal, regulatory, and strategic advice in a competitive and evolving EU and Irish pharmaceutical, biotech, medtech, food and cosmetics market.
Our extensive experience, allied with strong links with local and EU trade and regulatory associations, affords us an unparalleled insight into this market. This enables us to anticipate and identify potential issues in advance, and to ensure the smooth operation of our clients’ businesses through the formulation of innovative solutions to the emerging problems facing this sector, from expiry of patents, increased regulation and costs along with increased pressure on prices, to the implications of technology and Big Data for the sector, the growth of e-health and the move towards biopharmaceuticals.
OUR CLIENTS
Our group partners with many of the world’s leading pharmaceutical, medical device and biotech companies on establishing operations in Ireland. We advise major multinational and domestic pharmaceutical, diagnostic and medical device companies, ranging from start-ups and university spin-outs to large multinationals and industry leaders on all aspects and stages of the life cycle of a product, from research and development through to manufacturing and marketing of finished products, providing specific advice on all aspects of regulation and compliance.
We provide broad based legal solutions and tax advice in relation to the negotiation and structuring of a variety of transactions including mergers, acquisitions, migrations, inversions, pre-sale spinouts or hive downs, business and product acquisitions and disposals, restructurings, reorganisations, cross-border mergers, distributions, joint ventures, corporate structures and related structural issues.
"For me it’s the depth and breadth of the team – at the cutting edge."
The Legal 500, 2024