Life Sciences & Healthcare

We work with and have established long-term relationships with the top 100 life sciences & healthcare companies in the areas of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, biotechnology, agriculture and food, including the top 20 global pharmaceutical companies, the top ten global medical device companies, the largest biotechnology company and start-ups.

Our life sciences & healthcare teams in Central and Eastern Europe advise leading global business groups in the sector on transactions, commercial agreements, compliance, investigations and litigation, very quite often across multiple jurisdictions in the region and beyond. We can help you to navigate the regulatory landscape and to ensure compliance with both local laws and global policies.

With over 480 international specialist lawyers across CMS and the support of the Life Sciences & Healthcare Asia-Pacific Network (LAN), we understand the scientific and commercial aspects, as well as the legal imperatives affecting your life sciences & healthcare business. Our experts, many of whom have worked in-house in your sector, have developed a shared capability in the areas of pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices and diagnostics.
With active memberships in major industry associations such as the ABPI, ABHI, BIVDA, PAGB EUCOMED, MedTech Europe and EFPIA , we help shape the legal frameworks impacting the life sciences & healthcare sectors.

We regularly advise our clients on their day-to-day operational needs such as support with advertisement and promotion of medicine, public procurement, pricing and reimbursement, patents, trademarks and other intellectual property, product liability, anti-trust / competition law, commercial and clinical trial agreements as well as regulatory advice and M&A.

The Life Sciences & Healthcare Team in Hungary has strong sector-specific knowledge and first-hand experience of the market, gained through secondments and working as in-house counsel at Life Sciences & Healthcare companies. The team represents the Hungarian subsidiaries of a number of market-leading companies with a continuously growing number of instructions.