DLA Piper's life sciences team comprises approximately 30 corporate, IP, regulatory, compliance, investigations, capital markets, employment and tax lawyers. In Shanghai, China patent practice head Ting Xiao advises on high-profile life sciences, IP and regulatory matters; and Qiang Li advises Chinese life sciences companies on transactional work. Over in Hong Kong, Sammy Fang is a compliance and investigations specialist, while Christine Liu focuses on life sciences-related corporate investigations and compliance.
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Testimonials
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‘DLA Piper gives targeted consideration to the corporate legal needs of big healthcare companies and provides a lot of training on related topics, which is great help.’
’In terms of data law, privacy protection and antitrust, DLA Piper's partners are of extremely high quality and have a lot of resources.’
- ‘Ting Xiao provides unique insights and high-quality legal services.’
‘Sammy Fang has excellent response levels and can always deliver very suitable resources for the resolution of issues.’
‘Sammy Fang is able to coordinate the resources of both Hong Kong and mainland China very well, making the cooperation very smooth and efficient.’
Key clients
- MITRO Biotech Co
Work highlights
- Served as the global coordinating counsel for General Electric Company, in relation to its restructuring of healthcare businesses.
- Assisting the shareholders of YS Biopharma Co with its ongoing battle for control of YS Biopharma.
- Advised MITRO Biotech Co, a China-based global molecular imaging contract research organisation company, on its acquisition of US-based biomarker imaging company, XingImaging.
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Practice head
Ting Xiao; Sammy Fang
Other key lawyers
Qiang Li; Christine Liu