LIFE SCIENCES
Transactional
"Our experience with Arthur Cox has been very positive. The team approach ensured the best possible service for us."
The Legal 500, 2023
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.
EXPERIENCE
- Advising buyers and sellers of life sciences businesses on regulatory issues arising on transactions and dealing with the HPRA as Competent Authority, the NSAI as Ireland’s Notified Body, the Departments of Health and Agriculture, the HSE and other Irish regulatory bodies
- Advising life sciences companies on mergers, acquisitions, investment, post-acquisition integrations, pre-sale spin outs and hive downs of business divisions.
- Advising a major pharmaceutical manufacturer on the regulatory aspects of the disposal of a manufacturing plant in Ireland
- Advising a multinational pharmaceutical company and the regulatory aspects of the restructuring of its Irish subsidiaries and related marketing and manufacturing authorisations
- Advising life sciences clients on finance and tax matters including inward investment, structured finance, corporate finance, corporate migration, mergers and acqusitions, the Irish R&D tax credits system, banking, investment funds, real estate and international tax
- Advising on the full spectrum of EU and Competition law issues, including advising on parallel imports, the implications of changes in distribution arrangements, investigations by the Irish Competition Authority and the European Commission, Irish and EC merger control, and State aid rules.
