The Bowman Gilfillan healthcare and pharmaceutical practice has wide experience in the area of healthcare and pharmaceutical law and regulation.

Our clients include two of the listed private hospital groups, one of the world’s largest mutual indemnity associations and a number of multinational and local pharmaceutical companies supplying products in a variety of therapeutic categories. We advise on all aspects of the law including:

• General regulatory issues
• Product registrations
• Professional negligence
• Product liability
• Clinical trial registration and compliance
• Promotional material review and disputes
• Medical schemes and employee benefit issues
• Copyright and trade marks
• Patent drafting
• Patent prosecution and litigation
• General corporate and commercial litigation for healthcare and pharmaceutical clients
• Compulsory/voluntary licensing
• Pricing regulations
• Competition law
• Anti-retrovirals
• Distribution agreements and procurement arrangements (including within other  African countries)
• Parallel importation/product diversion
• Constitutional and administrative law issues surrounding pharmaceuticals and healthcare