Healthcare & Biotechnology

The biotech industry is constantly developing, and thriving when it comes to establishing and developing innovative ideas in the scientific field.

Naturally, the field of healthcare has unique characteristics, which are expressed, inter alia, in significant regulation, financing challenges, complex intellectual property issues and many other issues that require experience and broad expertise.

Our firm provides comprehensive support in the worlds of health, through an interdepartmental team of highly experienced lawyers, advising more than 50 companies – both young and well-established, private  and public companies, academic and medical institutions, technological incubators in the biomed field, private doctors and more, in a variety of aspects.

Intellectual Property, Development and Commercialization – Negotiating and drafting R&D and Commercialization Agreements, advising on in- and out- Licensing transactions, supporting Clinical Trials through their various stages, negotiating and drafting distribution agreements.

General Commercial support the team accompanies pharmaceutical companies, healthcare institutions and biotechnology companiesin all their commercial activities, including merger and acquisition transactions, the establishment and support of accelerators and technological incubators and the construction of complex option plans.

In addition, our lawyers advise investors, including angels and venture capital funds, and support collaborations with commercial, Israeli and international companies, establishing production lines, dealing with the Innovation Authority, financing transactions, financing rounds as well as capital market exit processes including IPOs and commercial and financial development contracts.

Comprehensive Regulatory Advice that includes, inter alia: registration of medical devices and pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and nutritional supplements, obtaining licenses, representing public health institutions vis-à-vis the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Finance and other government ministries, contracting with other institutions, approvals for the establishment of clinics, advising on consumer aspects vis-à-vis the company’s customers and more.

Guidance on privacy issues and information security: The amount of personal information in the healthcare arena is enormous, and often includes a range of personal health information in volume that increases regularly and quickly. Managing and handling this information requires unique skill and mastery of the provisions of the law.

Advising Start-Ups in the Medtech Field: Our team advises start-ups at all stages of their life-cycle – from the initial research stage, the clinical trial stage and applying for government grants, through the drafting of commercial agreements and licensing agreements with large corporations in Israel and around the world. The field of med-tech requires a unique familiarity with the management of many unique legal proceedings, such as certification proceedings vis-à-vis various health organizations and TTOs (Technology Transfer Offices), unique contracts regarding distribution, mode of use, warranty, quality and safety standards, as well as working with regulatory bodies such as the FDA, the World Health Organization, the European Union (CE) and other bodies that regulate quality and safety standards.

General Legal Support: Our team advises companies and corporations in the field of health in a variety of litigation proceedings, with an emphasis on class actions, on various issues including changing drug components, consumer issues, contractual agreements with HMOs and more. In addition, we represent companies in all aspects of competition, labor law and engagements in relation to donations to medical institutions.

The firm’s client-list in the field of healthcare includes public hospitals, HMOs and private clinics, start-ups as well as large local and international corporations, to which we provide both commercial support in a variety of complex transactions and in litigation and class actions.

Representative work:

• Advising Teva Pharmaceutical Industries in its commercial activities in Israel and abroad.
• Comprehensive legal advice for public hospitals in all branches of law, with an emphasis on health regulation.
• Supporting the technological arm of a large medical institution in all regulatory aspects of activities vis-à-vis the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Finance and other government ministries, also supporting privacy and information security issues, as well as a variety of cooperation agreements, licensing and research agreements and more.
• Advising a leading medical device company on all its commercial activities, including the establishment of international joint ventures, distribution agreements, construction of production lines, etc.
• Representation of Perrigo Israel Ltd. in a number of class actions, including complex class actions in respect of changes in drug components.
• Representation of health institutions at the High Court cases vis-à-vis the Ministry of Health, in relation to contractual agreements with the health funds, as well as in all matters relating to the relationship between the private and public systems.
• Advising Orbotech, one of Israel’s leading companies in the field of high-tech equipment, in a reverse triangular merger transaction – one of the most complex carried out in Israel
• Representation of the National Institute of Biotechnology in the Negev (NIBN), a unique research institute located at Ben-Gurion University.