I am a commercial and intellectual property partner working in the technology and healthcare sectors. My mission is to work as seamlessly as I can with your team to help you achieve your commercial objectives. I love working with dynamic technology businesses, especially those that empower people to improve their quality of life and health outcomes.
I really enjoy close working relationships with clients and their teams and I am often called on to provide strategic business advice, as well as legal advice.
I am regularly endorsed as a top tier commercial and healthcare lawyer in Chambers Legal Directory.
I have held non-executive director positions in the public and private sectors and I am currently a member of the Dean’s Advisory Group at Oxford Brookes University’s Business School.
I joined Taylor Vinters having had a long career with a leading UK law firm, where I led the firm’s commercial healthcare team, before joining a small disruptor law firm. In January 2023 Taylor Vinters merged with Mishcon de Reya LLP. Over my 30 year career, I have enjoyed several long term secondments to a variety of clients, including publicly listed companies and the UK’s Department of Health, where I worked on projects to improve health outcomes for patients and drafted the NHS’s clinical services contracts.
My particular expertise and specialisms include the following:
- Collaborations and joint ventures
- Complex commercial agreements involving IP
- Distributorships
- Outsourcing
- Healthcare transactions
- Clinical and quasi clinical service contracts, including for digital health project
- Advising at the interface of health policy and the law
- Supporting clients bidding for public sector contracts
My approach is to understand your commercial objectives and work with you as an extension of your team to achieve those objectives. I take a commercial approach to drafting and negotiating, always looking for the best solution for the success of a deal.
Things you might not know about me – I co-founded and now support a business/charity network which now has over 1,000 members who regularly share resources to improve positive social impact. I love folk music (and harbor a desire to learn to sing) and have recently become addicted to weight lifting.
I’d love to talk about how I can help your business, please contact me using the details above.