Life Sciences

Helping innovators bring life-changing products to market

FBT Gibbons is recognized nationally for life sciences transactions, litigation, and strategic counseling, including the full panoply of sophisticated intellectual property and regulatory needs facing life sciences clients. From coast to coast, beginning with the firm’s 100-year dominating presence in New Jersey (often referred to as the “Medicine Chest of the World”) to California (where life sciences companies represent +$400 billion annually to the state's economy), FBT Gibbons is uniquely positioned at the heart of the life sciences industry.

We keenly recognize that, by any measure, the life sciences industry is among the most nuanced and sophisticated business industries worldwide. Consequently, we have built consciously a multidisciplinary team that includes attorneys and scientific professionals whose practices focus exclusively on servicing clients in the life sciences arena. Our team leverages deep technical and business backgrounds in pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, and diagnostics, including practitioners with decades of pharma, biotech, and medical device in-house counsel experience. This intimate industry knowledge enables us to deliver full-service, creative legal solutions to both established and emerging life science companies as they navigate their growth, innovation, and regulatory complexities.

The seamless collaboration between our practice groups is a hallmark of FBT Gibbons’ approach. Most notably, our corporate attorneys work hand-in-glove with our intellectual property team members to advise on transactional, licensing, due diligence, and strategic counseling matters. And, our intellectual property litigators are widely recognized for their tenacity and technical acumen, particularly in Hatch-Waxman and many others of that established ilk. Our nationally ranked product liability group defends life sciences clients in high-stakes litigation involving drugs, medical devices, and laboratory products, representing industry leaders.