The Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals Group comprises a team of lawyers with a specific focus on the chemicals and pharmaceuticals sectors. We provide a comprehensive service advising on all aspects of the law affecting global manufacturers in their ventures.
We are one of the very few teams of lawyers in the UK with a focus on providing a comprehensive service to businesses operating in the chemicals and pharmaceuticals sectors. Drawing on the depth of expertise across the firm, the Group includes individuals who have worked in the chemicals industry for many years either as in-house lawyers or on secondment.
We support businesses in their day to day activities and also with their more strategic projects. Our knowledge of the sector enables us to understand better the challenges which our clients face and to hit the ground running when providing advice and assistance.
We appreciate the importance of providing day to day support to our clients. We have the capability and resource to handle transactions of any size, but we are not just interested in working on high value deals. Unlike many of our competitors, we seek to provide support in respect of all of the commercial and regulatory issues which are of relevance to our clients in the ordinary course of their business.
We are Associate Members of the Chemical Industries Association. We are also members of the North East Process Industries Cluster and work closely with them and other industry support associations. Through our strong links with these organisations and local regional development agencies and with our extensive experience in working with inward investors, we are able to provide a complete service to businesses seeking to move into or expand in the UK.
In addition to providing advice in specialist areas such as those involving HSE issues or which arise in respect of property transactions, construction contracts and commercial disputes of all kinds we give support to manufacturers of a broad range of both commodity and speciality chemicals and pharmaceuticals in respect of the following issues.
• plant expansion projects
• outsourcing of key business functions
• business sales, acquisitions and joint ventures
• toll manufacturing contracts
• product and services supply agreements
• confidentiality and sample analysis agreements
• contract research agreements and long term collaboration agreements for the development of new products
• projects involving the design, construction and operation of pilot plants for novel manufacturing processes
• contracts for the development, scale-up and manufacture of raw materials and products on a commercial basis
• agency and distribution agreements
• licence agreements permitting the global exploitation of proprietary technology
• advice and assistance regarding REACH