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A Look Ahead in Life Sciences: What We Are Tracking in the Third Quarter of 2025 and Beyond

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As the life sciences, medtech, and diagnostic industries continue to grow increasingly complex, so does the legal, regulatory, and compliance landscape. To help companies and investors navigate the many evolving and emerging...more

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UK will permanently retain its UK+ exhaustion regime to allow continued supply of medicines into the UK

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The government has published its response to the consultation on the exhaustion regime for IP rights. The overall conclusion is that the UK will permanently maintain its UK+ IP exhaustion regime, the bespoke (and...more

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A new approach to regulation by the MHRA and NICE

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On March 17, 2025, the government published a policy paper with an Action Plan for regulation and regulators, outlining how it intends to reform the UK's regulatory system to support growth and innovation. The Action Plan...more

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JPM2025: AI integration into UK’s MHRA’s processes presents opportunities, and challenges for regulating medicinal product...

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Access to first-in-class medicinal products that can save and transform lives is crucial for patients in the UK – and the earlier the access, the more significant the impact. Equally vital, however, is that such products are...more

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The Road Ahead for Private Equity: Reflections and Predictions

The year 2023 will be remembered as a challenging one for private equity (PE), with complexities to navigate on many fronts. Traditional debt financing was expensive and scarce, expectations on valuations were tricky to...more

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A Look Ahead in Life Sciences: What We Are Tracking in Q1 2024 and Beyond

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As the life sciences, medtech, and diagnostic industries continue to expand and grow increasingly complex, so does the legal, regulatory, and compliance landscape. To help companies and investors navigate the many evolving...more

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UK CMA issues 'prioritisation statement' to allay competition law fears that prevent combination therapies reaching NHS

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The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has taken the unusual step of issuing a prioritisation statement on cooperation between competitors to make combination therapies available to the NHS. The CMA worked closely...more

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Lowest-risk Clinical Trials Will Benefit From a New Notification Scheme and a Shorter Period for Application Processing

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On 12 October 2023, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (the MHRA) announced that the healthcare and life sciences sector will benefit from a new streamlined notification scheme for lowest-risk clinical...more

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A Look Ahead in Life Sciences: What We Are Tracking in Q4 2023 and Beyond

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As the life sciences, medtech, and diagnostic industries continue to expand and grow increasingly complex, so does the legal, regulatory, and compliance landscape. To help companies and investors navigate the many evolving...more

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European Biosimilar Regulatory Updates

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STADA and Xbrane Announce Approval of Ranibizumab Biosimilar in UK - On January 16, 2023, STADA Arzneimittel AG (STADA) and Xbrane Biopharyma AB (Xbrane) announced that the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare product Regulatory...more

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Litigating Over Clinical Trials - The Importance of Causation

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In a recent judgment in Cardiorentis AG v Iqvia Limited and Anor [2022] EWHC 250 (Comm), the English Commercial Court examined in detail, for the first time in the United Kingdom, the duties and standards required of contract...more

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The Court of Justice of the European Union provides clarifications on the assessment under competition law of pay-for-delay deals...

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On 30 January 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued its decision on a request for preliminary ruling submitted by the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) in a case concerning the long-standing...more

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New UK Medicines and Medical Devices Bill Announced

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The Queen's Speech, which set out the government's proposed plan for new legislation, included a new "Medicines and Medical Devices Bill". The government's background briefing describes the purpose of the Bill as ensuring...more

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New UK MHRA No Deal Guidance

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With the possibility of the UK leaving the EU on 29 March 2019 (a "no deal" Brexit) still on the table, life sciences companies are continuing their "no deal" preparations....more

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Brexit snapshot: Medicines

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Do you have a centralised EU marketing authorisation holder, orphan designation holder, manufacturing activities including import, batch control or batch release sites, a Qualified Person for Pharmacovigilance (QPPV),...more

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Updated UK “no deal” Brexit guidance on medicines, medical devices and clinical trials

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The UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued updated guidance on how the UK would regulate medicines, medical devices and clinical trials in the event that the UK leaves the EU on 29 March 2019...more

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UK MHRA consults on no-deal Brexit legislation

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The UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has initiated a consultation on the legislation and regulatory processes for medicines, medical devices and related clinical trials that would need to be...more

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HMA-EMA’s work programme on availability of authorised medicines for human and veterinary use includes measures for Brexit

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On 23 August 2018, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the Heads of Medicines Agencies (HMA), the network of the National Competent Authorities in the European Economic Area (EEA), published the work programme of their...more

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Updated EMA guidance on centrally authorised medicines raises new considerations for Brexit preparations

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On 19 June 2018, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) published updates to its Brexit Q&A document for human and veterinary medicines authorised via the centralised procedure and to its practical procedural guidance on making...more

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UK Parliamentary Report Published on the Impact of Brexit on the Pharmaceutical Sector

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The Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee, a parliamentary select committee, has published a report on the consequences of Brexit on the UK pharmaceutical industry. ...more

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UK publishes paper on Brexit and medicines regulation

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On the same day as the European Council voted to move the European Medicines Agency (EMA) from London to Amsterdam, the UK Parliament issued a briefing paper on Brexit and medicines regulation. ...more

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EMA senior officer: pharmaceutical companies encouraged to prepare for Brexit

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Agnès Saint-Raymond, MD, Head of International Affairs at the European Medicines Agency (“EMA”), recently urged pharmaceutical companies to be “proactive” in preparing for Brexit, as there is still uncertainty around a...more

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