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Peter Homberg

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Work Department

Corporate

Position

Peter Homberg is a partner in the Dentons Berlin office. He focuses on life sciences, IP, corporate law and M&A transactions in the life sciences and high-tech sector as well as in R&D and cooperation agreements, cross-border IP licensing and IP strategies. Furthermore, he has extensive experience providing legal advice on compliance issues. Additionally, he is the head of the European Cannabis sector group. Peter advises inter alia companies in the pharmaceutical, diagnostics, biotechnology, medical device and medical cannabis industries—from startups to large publicly listed companies. Furthermore, he has broad transactional experience in Southeast Asia. Peter is member of the Licensing Executive Society (LES), the German Association for Intellectual Property and Copyright (GRUR), the German Institution for Arbitration (DIS) as well as the Pharma-Lizenz-Club Deutschland e.V. He regularly holds lectures at seminars and conferences. He is the author of numerous professional articles and other publications regarding corporate or IP law in the field of life sciences.

Career

  • Partner, Dentons (formerly Salans), 2012 to date
  • Partner, (Head of German Life Sciences Practice) Raupach & Wollert-Elmendorff, Frankfurt, 2010-2012
  • Partner, Jones Day (Head of German and European Life Sciences Practice and Intellectual Property Practice), Frankfurt, 2001-2009
  • Deputy Head of Legal Department, Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Mannheim, 1996-2001
  • Head of the investment projects department, Debis Marketing Services, 1994-1996
  • Head of Singapore office, Thümmel Schütze & Partner, Singapore, 1990-1994
  • In-house Counsel, C. Wuppesahl Insurance Brokers, 1989-1990

Memberships

  • Member, Licensing Executive Society (LES)
  • Member, German Association for Intellectual Property and Copyright (GRUR)
  • Member, German Institution for Arbitration (DIS)
  • Member, Pharma-Lizenz-Club Deutschland e.V.

Education

Admitted to the bar, Germany, 1990

Legal clerkship, 1986-1988, Hannover

Georg-August-University Göttingen, 1986, Legal studies

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Germany > Industry focus > Healthcare and life sciences

Dentons is led by Christof Kautzsch and comprehensively advises innovative pharmaceutical manufacturers, hospital groups, health insurance companies as well as companies from the medical device, pharmaceutical, biotechnology and diagnostics sectors, financial investors and research institutions. The practice closely cooperates with other locations as well as with the corporate, M&A, procurement and employment law teams, thereby covering regulatory issues. Kautzsch offers transaction support, while Ilka Mehdorn is well versed in regulatory issues and Peter Homberg advises on matters pertaining to medicinal cannabis. Matters at the interfaces with IP and IT are also covered, where the team represents pharmaceutical companies in trademark and patent disputes as well as in civil and criminal law proceedings in connection with pharmaceutical crime. Homberg also advises on cross-border IP licences, commercial contracts and transactions, he is supported by senior associate Malte Goetz.

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