Reed Smith’s commercial contracting lawyers understand that contracts must both address and protect your interests and accelerate your commercial ambitions. Our fully integrated, business-oriented service pairs deep life sciences sector insight with superior contracting discipline.
Our transatlantic team of life sciences lawyers includes transactional and regulatory attorneys with extensive experience negotiating, drafting, and operationalizing a wide range of commercial agreements used by pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, diagnostics, and digital health companies.
We routinely handle domestic U.S., EU, and global sourcing and procurement contracts for various product types, including agreements relating to active pharmaceutical ingredients, excipients, packaging components, and medical-device components. These agreements include master services agreements (including with contract research organizations (CROs) and contract development and manufacturing organizations), master supply agreements, manufacturing supply agreements, toll manufacturing and joint-manufacturing arrangements, quality agreements, material transfer agreements, and more. Furthermore, we are adept at helping our clients with respect to commercialization, marketing, and long-term distribution, logistics, and fulfillment contracts.
Our team also helps clients prepare and negotiate all phases of clinical trial agreements, including among study sites, sponsors, and principal investigators, and between sponsors and site management organizations (SMOs) or CROs, for trials in a wide range of therapeutic areas.
Our cross-functional approach helps ensure the risk profile is appropriate, and also helps mitigate the litigation, tax, and antitrust exposures that can arise. Our team delivers solutions designed to stand up under both regulatory and courtroom scrutiny.
We offer a contractual advisory platform that is strategic, agile, and attuned to the realities of your business. Our team is deeply experienced in handling complex contract negotiations, drafting, and enforcement, and is focused on helping protect your interests and helping ensure your business objectives are achieved.
