Medtech
Why Cooley
We serve as strategic business partners to 350+ medtech companies around the world. With a rapidly growing and highly competitive landscape, medtech companies face unique industry challenges, including shorter product lifecycles, regulatory and reimbursement challenges, a highly litigious IP environment, an expanding international market and an increasing need for strategic commercialization and sales partners. Our lawyers help companies navigate these issues, providing an unparalleled understanding of their business needs, along with deep and long-standing relationships with the most active and strategic partners in the sector.
Corporate
We have extensive experience representing medtech companies in a variety of strategic transactions, including financings, partnering and commercial agreements, spin-offs, mergers, acquisitions and public offerings.
Areas of Practice
- Company formation
- Corporate partnering, strategic alliances and joint ventures
- Financings
- Fund formation
- Manufacturing, supply and distribution agreements
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Public financings and private placements
- Tax
Litigation
Our litigators have been involved in some of the most high-profile cases in the medtech arena and have consistently obtained effective and successful results for a wide array of clients. We aggressively pursue and defend our clients' rights in cases involving nearly every type of medical technology.
Areas of Practice
- Class action defense
- Contract and license disputes
- Employment litigation
- False Claims Act/qui tam
- Privacy litigation
- Product liability
- Restructuring, bankruptcy and creditors' rights
- Securities litigation
Regulatory
Our regulatory lawyers understand the myriad challenges and opportunities facing the medical device industry and have the depth of experience necessary to navigate the ever-changing rules of this dynamic marketplace. In an environment of increasingly evolving laws and regulations, companies must consider the intricate legal and regulatory parameters relevant to its business operations.
Areas of Practice
- Antitrust counseling
- Clinical trial agreements
- FDA
- Fraud & Abuse
- Government contracts and reimbursement programs, CRADAs, NIH grants
- Export control and international trade regulations
- Privacy and data protection counseling and data breach response
Healthcare & Life Sciences Regulatory Practice
Intellectual Property
Cooley's IP lawyers structure sophisticated IP-based transactions and licensing agreements, formulate global patent prosecution strategies, handle IP diligence pertaining to high-value investments and transactions, assist with trademark selection and clearance, and provide strategic counseling directed towards maximizing the value of IP assets. We defend our clients' success in courts across the US and UK and regularly litigate all types of IP cases including patent, trade secret, Section 337 investigations, trademark, trade dress, copyright, false advertising, domain name and licensing matters. With deep experience in this sector, our lawyers understand the competitive challenges that are unique to medical technology companies and craft IP strategies which help advance our clients' business goals.