Atkinson Vinden currently acts for a number of companies operating in the life sciences and healthcare area, including Device Technologies, Omega Pharma, AMSL, and Elekta, along with numerous health care providers including medical specialists, radiology, dental, cosmetic, pharmacy and veterinarian practices.
Through our work with such clients, we have developed an acute understanding of the industry in such areas as compliance, product liability, professional negligence, bioethics, regulation (especially arising under the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 (Cth), intellectual property, competition and trade practices, and distribution and indemnity agreements.
Our firm’s depth of legal services across such areas as HR advice (employment law), dispute resolution and litigation, commercial law, leasing and property law, means that we are well placed to provide all of the allied legal services that life science and health care businesses are likely to ever need.
We currently offer mediation services to members of the MTAA to facilitate the resolution over disputes involving alleged breaches of the industry Code of Conduct.
The focus of our work is on finding commercially pragmatic solutions that facilitate business development and profitability for our life sciences and health care clients.
Areas Include:
- Distribution agreements and indemnities
- Therapeutic Goods Administration compliance
- Terms and Conditions
- Licensing
- Intellectual property
- Sale and purchase of business
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Privacy
- Biotechnology
- Registration, professional standards and bioethics
- Employment and Award obligations
Atkinson Vinden are proud members of the Medical Technology Association of Australia Limited, and were the gold sponsors of their annual conference in 2016.
