HGF Law
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HGF Law’s IP team is led by Michelle Davies and advises across contentious, transactional and commercial IP issues, alongside data protection mandates. The firm is known for its strong focus on the life sciences, education, retail, and healthcare sectors. Davies has specific expertise in the pharmaceutical and life sciences industries and advises on licensing transactions and acquisitions, as well as supporting educational institutions and spin-outs. Janet Knowles is also a key figure in the team.
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Testimonials
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- ‘They are the best at what they do and they have a holistic view of securing intellectual property and how it influences every aspect of how we do business.’
- ‘Key individuals are Balvinder Matharu and Nick Howe. A strong pharma background has ensured great advice based on direct experience in the field given our technology and application needs specialist knowledge. The novelty in our invention was readily understood.'
Key clients
- Royal Veterinary College
- Queens University Belfast
Work highlights
Assisted Royal Veterinary College (RVC) in drafting a suite of template agreements to develop its IP management and licensing business, including inventor and company assignments, a material transfer and evaluation agreement, data transfer agreement, software and materials transfer agreement, licence of patents and know-how, option agreement and revenue sharing agreement.

