Meet the Team

Overview of Experience

I am a qualified Solicitor within the England and the Republic of Ireland. I founded Life Science Law in 2015, after spending over 20 years at a number of leading pharmaceutical and bio-tech space, where I built in-house legal and compliance teams, with a great reputation for providing proactive support to the business, through understanding what the business needs and creating effective teams to meet those needs.

During, that time, I found it difficult to obtain lawyers and industry expertise, quickly, to support un-expected ad-hoc projects or obtain interim support from lawyers with industry expertise which could be ramped up and down to meet sudden fluctuations in workload.

So I created Life Science Law to fill that gap.

 

Areas of Expertise

• Legal contracts, including MSAs, SaaS, collaboration, manufacturing, distribution and supply chain.
• Intellectual Property (including in and out-licensing of IP)
• Healthcare Compliance
• Data Privacy (including GDPR principles and processes)
• Coordinate legal support for strategic projects (e.g., Joint ventures, group reorganization).
• Market Access, Early Access, Patient Support Programs
• Review of marketing and promotional materials.
• Apps and other Digital Media – data privacy, terms of use, EULA

 

Therapeutic Areas of Expertise

I have worked across a wide variety of therapy areas including rare diseases, oncology, animal health and cannabinoids.

 

Regulatory Bodies of Expertise

I have worked within the local markets of UK and Ireland, as well as EU roles within the pharma and bio-tech industry and have a good understanding of the Regulatory framework within which the life science industry resides.

 

Track Record

Novartis: Here is where my passion for the pharmaceutical industry began, some 20+ years ago, my first in-house role, where I supported Oncology, Clinical Trials and Tech Ops.

Novo-Nordisk: Here I created the in-house legal team for the UK and Ire division of Novo-Nordisk. During that time, I managed an ABPI Competitor Code breach complaint, which was at that time, the largest case the PMCPA had ever handled.

Merck Serono: Here I developed the legal team and rolled out the global compliance program across the pharma, chemicals, consumer health, and well-being divisions of the business within UK and Ireland.

Illumina: I was the first EU legal Counsel, here I turned around a failing EU contracts team, and also negotiated the 100K genome project with the UK Government.

Bristol Myers Squibb: This was my last in-house role, before pursing Life Science Law. Here I developed the legal and compliance team and navigated the waters through a number of company transformations and the acquisition of Celgene.

 

Find out more about why Wendy set up Life Science Law here