Bryan Cave attorneys understand the fast paced environment of the life sciences and health care industries. Our attorneys have direct experience counseling hospital and other health care facility providers, physicians, alternate site health care providers, pharmacies, medical supply companies, home health, payors, and other participants providing products and services. Our attorneys also have direct experience counseling pharmaceutical, biotechnology, biomedical, medical device, research, nutrition and other life sciences businesses in these unique and sophisticated sectors.
Our People
Bryan Cave’s Life Sciences and Health Care Client Service Group is a diverse, multi-disciplinary team comprised of approximately 50 attorneys and policy advisors firm-wide. The attorneys in Bryan Cave’s Life Sciences and Health Care Client Service Group have academic and professional backgrounds in business, accounting, finance, health care planning and management, and attorneys with advanced degrees and/or industry experience in the fields of bio– and organic chemistry, molecular and cellular biology, and plant genetics. Our team also includes attorneys who have worked for state and federal governmental agencies and, as such, have practical experience in drafting, interpreting and enforcing laws and regulations that matter to clients in the life sciences and health care industry. Our attorneys are active in the life sciences and health care industry and are frequently asked to take leadership roles on issues affecting the industry, including economic development, legislative and ethics. By working closely with leaders in research, business, and the political arena, we are able to provide our clients with knowledgeable counsel, industry insight and strategic contacts.
Our Practice
Operating as a cross-office/multi-disciplinary team, the attorneys in Bryan Cave’s Life Sciences and Health Care Client Service Group leverage their collective knowledge and experience to provide legal advice to life sciences and health care clients in a broad range of areas, including corporate organization and governance, private and public securities and debt offerings, mergers and acquisitions, litigation, compliance counseling and defense,
fraud investigations, False Claims Act and qui tam actions, strategic affiliations and collaborations, technology transfer, intellectual property, technology licenses, sponsored research agreements, Food and Drug Administration issues, managed care matters, health planning, private and government contracting, Certificate of Need, tax-exempt financing and regulation, state and federal licensure, accreditation, product development, manufacturing and distribution, Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement and appeals, fraud and abuse and self-referral counseling, legislative and regulatory policy matters, patient privacy laws, physician recruitment and retention, risk management, credentialing, medical staff governance, medical staff disputes and peer review.
Our team regularly works with other Bryan Cave attorneys to provide full-service representation to our life sciences and health care clients in the areas of products liability, insurance coverage, franchise relations, real estate and zoning, international law, antitrust law, employment and labor relations, employee benefits, executive compensation, bankruptcy and environmental matters.
Our Clients
Bryan Cave’s representation across these sectors includes public companies, start-up companies, joint ventures, research collaborations, entrepreneurs, practitioners, incubators, manufacturers, health care providers and suppliers, universities and scientists, facility developers and operators, payors and managed care organizations, as well as venture capital and private equity firms and investment banks.
Bryan Cave has particularly broad experience with home care and related alternate site providers focusing on patient care and coordination outside a hospital setting. We have counseled hospitals and integrated health delivery systems on the establishment of home care service capability as a further extension of the continuum of care for those organizations. We represent on an ongoing basis home care companies (including home infusion, specialty pharmacy and RT/DME suppliers), both privately owned and publicly traded. We regularly address relationships between for-profit home care providers and not-for-profit hospitals and integrated delivery systems.