Healthcare & Life Sciences

How We Work With You

Understanding your business

We take a vested interest in the goals and growth of our clients’ businesses and help them thrive in the market space where they operate. This approach allows us to form lasting client relationships that are critical to long-term success. There’s no obligation for initial conversations.

Clear advice, transparent costs

Our approach to client service is what sets us apart. We are clear in advice, transparent over cost and seek to add value wherever possible. We deliver straightforward legal advice, both on time and on budget.

Staying responsive

We know timing matters in highly regulated, fast-moving sectors. We respond quickly to queries, provide realistic timescales, and keep you updated throughout.

Building relationships

Many of our clients have worked with us as their organisations have grown and evolved. We understand your sector’s challenges and provide proactive advice that helps you anticipate opportunities and mitigate risks before they arise.

Why Choose Slater Heelis for Healthcare & Life Sciences

Recognised sector expertise

Slater Heelis is recognised in Chambers and Partners, The Legal 500, and The Times Best Law Firms, reflecting the quality and depth of our expertise across healthcare and life sciences sectors.

Specialist knowledge

We’re one of the few firms in the North West offering specialist partnership advice to GPs and GP federations. For life sciences companies, we provide expertise across acquisitions and disposals, licensing, regulatory advice, intellectual property and financing.

Gold Partner of Sci-Tech Daresbury

We’re proud to be a Gold Partner of Sci-Tech Daresbury, one of two national science and innovation campuses and an internationally recognised location for high-tech businesses and leading-edge science. As a Gold Partner, we offer strategic support for ambitious companies at each stage of business development, including corporate structures, incorporation, mergers, acquisitions, IPOs and capital markets, development capital, dispute resolution and estate planning.

Diverse client base

We maintain a diverse client base, which includes regional and national businesses of all sizes, in both the public and private sectors. This approach gives us a broader understanding of each sector and the bespoke requirements our clients face.

Full-service support

As a full-service firm with offices in Manchester, Sale and Chester, we can bring in colleagues from across the firm when your needs extend beyond corporate and commercial matters. You benefit from integrated advice that keeps every aspect of your organisation aligned.

Client Success: Blueberry Therapeutics

We’ve worked closely with Blueberry Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company developing topical treatments for skin diseases. Our support has included assistance in closing their first significant financing round.

John Ridden, CEO of Blueberry Therapeutics, says:

“Slater Heelis has been and continues to be, a real asset to Blueberry. They are a key member of the extended Blueberry Therapeutics team, helping to shape our corporate strategy and move the company forward. Their most notable recent impact was assistance in closing our first significant financing round earlier this year.”