CMS’s Lifesciences team regularly advises clients in the lifesciences and pharma sectors, providing them with comprehensive legal advice including corporate and M&A, as well as regulatory and other advice such as: distribution models, parallel imports and stock management, pricing, branding, trade dress, advertising and labelling, competition and public procurement, research and development, data exclusivity.

— We are recognised leaders in the Lifesciences industry – in Moscow we have a team of lawyers specialising in Lifesciences industry that are a part of our global Lifesciences group of more than 250 experts across Europe who have significant experience in the sector. The group is equally recognised by Chambers and Partners, Legal 500 and the Practical Law Company (PLC) who have recommended us in every Lifesciences category. For the last two years, we have been the number one law firm across Europe for the number of
M&A deals in the sector.

— We have advised major pharmaceutical companies – we act for more than 100 lifescience businesses including 16 of the top 20 global pharmaceutical companies and 8 of the top 10 medical device companies.

— We offer a ‘one-stop shop’ approach – we are a full-service law firm ranked in the top 10 in Europe. Our lawyers operate across the majority of legal disciplines across the Lifesciences sector; including commercial, intellectual property, corporate, competition and regulatory, allowing us to deliver to all your business needs, both locally and internationally.

Some of our lawyers have worked in-house for leading pharmaceutical companies, thus know the industry regulations and key issues from inside. The team has a profound and up-to-date technical and business-related knowledge of the sector and have built notable contacts with the regulatory authorities in Russia.

Key contacts: 

Vsevolod Tyupa | Senior associate, Head of Lifesciences in Russia