Life Sciences
Life Sciences is a truly unique business that requires outside counsel with specific expertise focused on the Life Sciences. In Life Sciences, it matters if lawyers have educational and/or industry experience in Life Sciences, and it matters if lawyers have served as in-house counsel at Life Sciences companies. Most importantly, outside counsel must share their Life Sciences clients’ passionate interest in growing a business, in developing and delivering products that solve complex health care conditions, and bringing business, law, and science closer together.
At GRSM, our Life Sciences lawyers provide clients with all of these essential requirements. We understand that the business of Life Sciences is based on constant pioneering, and the lawyers that help guide Life Sciences companies must also have a pioneering spirit in handling new legal challenges, creating new legal solutions, and delivering new value in their legal services.
Unique Practice Leadership
GRSM’s Life Sciences attorneys have substantial expertise in representing Life Sciences clients, particularly in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. A number of attorneys in the Group have served as former in-house counsel for Life Sciences companies.
Our Life Sciences attorneys cost-effectively serve as the one-stop-shop for all the legal services needed by Life Sciences companies. They know the importance of being responsive, reliable, and committed to their clients, and they know what their clients want - value, solutions, and results.
Comprehensive Range of Legal and Regulatory Services
Our Life Sciences practice is an interdisciplinary team of lawyers with experience in the complex legal, regulatory, and operational issues facing Life Sciences companies. Our integrated approach saves time and money, and assures our legal services are practical, effective, and help deliver each client’s business objectives. Our Life Sciences expertise includes intellectual property, business transactions, litigation, employment, regulatory compliance, finance, securities, real estate, insurance, product liability, tax, international business and trade, and general corporate counsel advice.
Serving All Companies in the Life Sciences Ecosystem
GRSM assists all businesses involved in the Life Sciences community – start-up and emerging companies, global publicly-traded companies, angel investors/venture capitalists/hedge funds/investment funds, academic institutions, clinical laboratories/research organizations, and R&D and manufacturing entities located outside of the U.S. Our team represents entities that discover, develop, test, commercialize, market, and sell Life Sciences products, including pharmaceutical, medical device, biotech, health care technology, and agribusiness.
We are experienced in providing legal services in the diagnostics, bioinformatics, vaccine development, genomics, proteomics, biomedical sciences, biomaterials, neuroscience, drug delivery, combinatorial chemistry, agrotechnology, food science, biomolecular engineering, pharmacogenomics, nanotechnology, and nutraceuticals arenas.
Advanced Training
In addition to J.D.s, lawyers in our Life Sciences group have advanced science degrees and technical training, including Aerospace Engineering, Biochemistry, Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Cell-Molecular Biology and Genetics, Computer Engineering, Economics, Mechanical Engineering, Organic Chemistry, and Physics.