Life Sciences and Healthcare
BCF is the law firm of choice for any business in the life sciences and healthcare industries
Our professionals help our clients comply with local and international laws and regulations governing health products, biotech, medtech, and health risks. We represent pharmaceutical, biotech, health product, and cosmetic companies, as well as public and private operators in the health sector.
BCF’s multidisciplinary team includes lawyers, patent and trade-mark agents, tax specialists, chemists, and biologists. Our professionals‘ industry experience enables them to understand our clients’ daily challenges and to assist them at every stage of their development, be it in establishing a management or employee incentive plan, in hiring researchers and other key employees, applying sound governance principles, creating financial packages, or searching for business opportunities. We also negotiate strategic agreements and draft licensing, research collaboration, service, clinical testing, manufacturing and distribution agreements.
Sub-industries
Sub-industries
BCF’s multidisciplinary team advises and defends clients operating in the animal health sector.
Our intellectual property team protect our clients’ various designs and recipes. It devises patent and trademark strategies that protect this property at home and abroad. Our regulatory team ensures that all trials carried out on animals are carried out ethically and in a fully compliant manner. Our commercial law team negotiates and drafts the various agreements to develop and market our clients’ products or services. Our litigation and dispute resolution team advises on how to avoid disputes and acts quickly to resolve these, should they arise.
As a firm committed to innovation and technology, BCF has developed a team of professionals, including engineers and PhDs, who understand the specificities of the biotechnology sector.
Our team helps clients create and implement solid strategies not only to protect their intellectual property, but to bring their products and services to market and to otherwise conduct their business in full compliance with the regulatory regimes of the jurisdictions in which they operate. BCF’s Global Mobility team acts rapidly to help locate and move the right talent and our financing professionals draft and negotiate the documents required to secure our client’s funding needs. In a field like biotechnology, which frequently evolves faster than the legislation, the value BCF brings to a client is the combination of sector-specific, business, and legal knowledge and expertise to assist clients in making the right decisions.
BCF has the privilege of representing a variety of stakeholders in the health services sector, from hospitals, governmental entities and universities, to medical professionals, suppliers, and insurers.
We also work closely with the major teaching hospital networks in Quebec such as the McGill University Health Centre and the University of Montreal Health Centre on a variety of projects concerning medical ethics and law. Our team is particularly active in advising a variety of clients who are developing artificial intelligence solutions for the delivery of medical services, robotics to create medical prosthetics, and various forms of regenerative medicine. While our intellectual property team helps our clients protect and market their inventions, our commercial lawyers ensure that the appropriate agreements are in place to protect their financial interests. Our litigation and dispute resolution team can always be relied on to direct clients on how to avoid disputes and to resolve them quickly and efficiently should they arise.
BCF‘s multidisciplinary team of intellectual property, commercial, regulatory, privacy and litigation lawyers provides our medtech clients with the breadth of knowledge and expertise necessary to develop, protect, and defend their products and services.
Our patent and trademark team, comprised of engineers, PhDs and lawyers, help our clients devise and implement effective intellectual property protection strategies, while our team of regulatory lawyers ensures that their products and services are fully compliant when they enter the market. Our privacy specialists not only assist clients navigate through an often challenging body of existing health sector regulations but spot and respond to future trends. Finally, the knowledge and skill of BCF’s litigation team is always at our client‘s disposal be it to defend against a liability claim, to protect their intellectual property, or to resolve any other matter affecting their business.
BCF’s intellectual property professionals and its commercial, regulatory, and litigation lawyers are an unbeatable resource for clients developing, manufacturing, marketing, or defending a claim involving natural health products.
Our regulatory team leads clients through the complexities of the Natural Health Products Regulation to ensure that products are tested, manufactured, licensed and labelled appropriately. Our commercial lawyers negotiate and draft the commercial agreements required not only to ensure full compliance with regulatory bodies but to protect our clients’ commercial interests. Our intellectual property professionals ensure that our clients’ intellectual property is protected while our litigators direct them away from potential pitfalls and defend them against any type of claim.
From M&A, to intellectual property, regulatory, anti-trust, tax, employment, litigation, and global mobility, BCF provides a one-stop-shop to clients in the pharmaceutical sector.
Our team advises clients on matters involving taxation, clinical trial research, intellectual property protection and strategy, labelling, licensing, governance and employment matters. We represent a variety of pharmaceutical companies on their transactional matters as well as before the courts in high-profile class actions. Our global mobility team acts quickly to move talent from around the globe to Canada or the United States in order to fill any vacancies our clients may have.
