Slater Heelis: Life Sciences

Slater Heelis: Life Sciences

Life Sciences

www.slaterheelis.co.uk 0161 969 3131

exceeding expectations

Slater Heelis exceeding

expectations for almost 250 years

Expertise Built up through over 30 years of experience, the Life Sciences team headed up by Simon Wallwork has an extensive understanding of the environment in which life science clients operate and the unique challenges faced by them when developing and marketing drugs, devices, diagnostic and bio-technology products and services. The team combines a blend of scientific understanding, legal expertise and business awareness in order to protect clients’ interests and maximise their commercial value. The team has significant experience of acting for clients during the life cycle of a company within the sector, from early stage start up, spinning out of academia, through funding rounds, R&D, commercialisation, IPO or sale.

At Slater Heelis we: Provide a partner led service which is both commercial and pragmatic; Provide practical, flexible and proactive advice;

Actively project manage any transaction to a successful conclusion; and

Guide founders through the legal minefield of setting up their companies to be investment ready.

Blueberry Therapeutics Limited Ubiquigent Limited Alderley Analytics Limited Tecrea Limited Stratastem Limited Liverpool Chirochem Limited Mabion SA Precision Medicines Limited Clients Clients we have acted for include:

BiVictrix Therapeutics Limited Carena Healthcare Limited Cryoniss Ltd Medicines Discovery Council Dr Fertility Limited Trigenex Limited Clin-E-Cal Limited Gen 2 Neuroscience Limited

Swellaway Limited Spectromics Limited Curapel Limited

Genon Laboratories Limited Manchester Imaging Limited Peak Proteins Limited Talisman Therapeutics Limited Chromition Limited

We have worked with Companies that have spun out of:

Oxford University Cambridge University Manchester University Leeds University AstraZeneca

Pfizer Amgen University of Strathclyde Kings College Royal Veterinary College

Warwick University Bristol University Liverpool University Sheffield University

Client Highlights

Acting for Blueberry Therapeutics Limited in relation to its acquisition of certain assets from AstraZeneca, its seed funding from various high net worth investors, its fundraise led by the GM&C Life Science Fund and its Series B funding by CMS Medical Venture (Investments) Limited.

Advising Talisman Therapeutics Limited on its spin out from Cambridge University including a collaboration agreement with MedImmunne.

Advising Alderley Analytical Limited on its formation and funding round with Alderley Park Ventures and SPARK Impact.

Advising Ubiquigent Limited , a spinout from Dundee University on its seed funding from Scottish Enterprise and IP2IPO Group.

Advising Manchester Imaging Limited on its original spinout from Manchester University, its subsequent first round funding by Mercia Fund and on its first commercial agreement with Henry Schien Inc.

Advising Clin-E-Cal Limited on its spinout from Manchester University and its subsequent investment rounds.

Advising BiVictrix Therapeutics Limited on its investment rounds with Alderley Park Ventures Limited and DBW Investments Limited, to eventual trading on the London Stock Exchange.

Our Team

SimonWallwork Partner and Head of Life Sciences [email protected] 0161 672 1528

Simon Wallwork joined Slater Heelis in September 2014 from Weightmans LLP. With over 30 years’ experience advising on acquisitions, disposals, private equity and public market transactions, for a wide variety of clients including public and private companies, banks, venture capital funds and partnerships, Simon also has considerable client side experience spending a number of years working in-house with Pilkington plc. Simon is consistently ranked in the Top 5 corporation transaction lawyers according to the Experian guides since 2015. He is recognised as a leading individual in the Legal 500 Directory and the Chambers Guide, being described as "an extremely experienced lawyer who is not fazed by anything he comes across." He has a deep understanding of the sector and its key drivers. He has acted for over 35 companies in development capital deals over the last 2 years. He is a member of the Strategic Advisory Board of BIONOW, the cluster organisation for the Biotech Sector in the North of England and a Gold Partner of the Daresbury Campus in Warrington, England, an incubator for Life Sciences and Tech companies.

RhianOwen Partner [email protected] 0161 672 1527

Rhian Owen joined Slater Heelis in September 2014 from Weightmans LLP. She has extensive experience advising on acquisitions, disposals, private equity transactions, joint ventures and general company law for a wide variety of clients. Rhian, a medical science graduate, has worked in the life sciences sector for over 10 years and has considerable experience of advising early stage companies from early stage spinout (whether that be from academia or pharma), through funding rounds, R&D, and commercialisation.

Client Feedback

Comments and testimonials from a vast range of projects for our diverse skilled team.

"The legal team at Slater Heelis led by SimonWallwork were outstanding on this transaction. We agreed with the vendors to work to tight timescales and the Slater Heelis teamwere instrumental in enabling us to complete on time. Working as a cohesive team they were pro-active in anticipating the issues that would arise and ensuring they were dealt with quickly." - GNR Technology Ltd

"We have used SimonWallwork and Rhian Owen as corporate advisors for many years. The advice has always been excellent, professional, timely and good value...their advice was excellent and they are all a pleasure to deal with."

Simon Wallwork is head of the firm's corporate and commercial team and is described as "an extremely experienced lawyer who is not fazed by anything he comes across." A source remarks that "he has been around the block and knows his stuff," adding: "He has a strong focus on corporate work and has the requisite expertise to handle complexity." This is just a short note to recommend Slater Heelis for their work for Crushed (a fast fruit snack business based in Altrincham) and to support their nomination in the above awards. They have been thorough and understanding of the pressures of a small start up such as ourselves – Richard Riley deserves special credit for his patience." - Crushed Limted "Nicky Collins is exceptional in combining a very professional but approachable persona with a clarity of thought and communication which is outstanding. She is an authority regarding the contractual and commercial aspects of service provision and over the last 5 years has fully justified my confidence in her abilities on numerous occasions. In respect of my business and professional matters I consider her to be my Kevlar overcoat." Richard helped us in successfully applying for Tier 2 Sponsorship Licence for a Canadian GP to join our practice. He was extremely through in ensuring that he covered every option to prevent our application failing and helped make the process go as smoothly as possible." - T Ferrigno "This firm is a cohesive team of specialists with seamless interdepartmental communication and support rather than individual departments of a large corporate. In my experience it provides the same breadth and quality of service as a large corporate but with a personal touch and excellent level of client care. It is very much partner led but juniors are used in an appropriate fashion with good supervision and cost savings. As a client I feel valued and supported but never stupid. The advice received and work undertaken has been recognised by all concerned in my business matters as being clear and of the highest quality. They inspire confidence and client loyalty and there are never any issues in respect of costs which are agreed in advance. Invoices are also explained and agreed before submission so there are never any surprises."

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