Practice Area

Life sciences companies often operate across borders, invest in innovation and manage valuable IP assets.

We help ensure their tax strategy aligns with these realities and supports long-term strategic objectives. Our advice is commercially focused and clearly delivered, enabling clients to move forward with clarity. By aligning tax strategies with our clients’ broader business imperatives, we help turn a potential complexity into a source of value and competitive advantage.

Recent Work

  • Advising Biohaven on entering into a collaboration agreement with Pfizer, and on the later $11.6 billion sale of Biohaven Pharmaceutical Ireland DAC to Pfizer.

  • Advising an international energy and chemicals group on the implications for its REACH registration as part of a tax restructuring process.

  • Acting for Biosynth International Inc., a KKR portfolio company, on its circa $30 million purchase of Benen Trading Limited and Fitzgerald Industries from Trinity Biotech.

  • Advising a NYSE listed clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company on its global IP restructuring and commercialisation project.

  • Advising a global medtech company on restructuring of corporate structure and intragroup arrangements to achieve additional efficiencies and minimise tax leakage.

  • Advising a global medtech company on the implementation of their transfer pricing policies including drafting of an intragroup framework and operating agreements.

  • Advising a number of multinational life sciences companies on the availability of research and development tax credits and the Irish Patent Box regime for intellectual property development and exploitation activities.

  • Advising Comar Holdings LLC, a custom medical devices supplier, on its acquisition of the entire issued share capital of the pharmaceutical injection moulded products supplier Automatic Plastics Ltd.

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