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Category - transition plan

02-10-2017medicaldeviceslegal

EU MDR / IVDR Regulatory Cassandra

Sometimes you have days that you feel like Cassandra. I had a Cassandra moment after moderating the MDR panel at the Advamed MedTech Conference on 25 September. Cassandra was a lady from mythological heritage. She made the Greek god Apollo angry by changing her mind to be his girlfriend after he had granted her the […]

10-09-2017medicaldeviceslegal

San Jose CA workshop: Everything You Always Wanted to Know about the EU Medical Devices Regulation, but Were Afraid to Ask

If you have questions about what the MDR will mean for your company and happen to be in San Jose in California on 25 September, consider attending the evening workshop that Factory (the Dutch devices CRO) and I are organizing on Monday, 25 September 2017 from 19:30 to 21:30 (PDT). You may be in San […]

03-08-2017medicaldeviceslegal

MDR and IVDR transitioning – where are you in your process?

I see in practice that some companies are well on their way with implementing the new MDR and IVDR regulations, while a lot of others are not. It will be interesting where everyone will be by the time the transitional period of the MDR ends and then when the IVDR transitional period ends. This post […]

06-04-2017medicaldeviceslegal

MDR and IVDR adopted by Parliament – entry into force imminent

Completely in line with expectations the Parliament adopted the texts of the MDR and the IVDR yesterday. I have nothing to add to that in addition to previous posts in this blog. It is what it already was. The texts can be found here. This means that we are now looking at publication in the Official […]

05-03-2017medicaldeviceslegal

This is it: MDR and IVDR texts now ready for final voting

The fat lady has her lines and is about to sing. After the lengthy legal linguist revision process (remember, these texts have to be consistent in 24 languages) the Council published the text for its first reading for the MDR and IVDR. First reading only, after such a lengthy process in which we arrived at […]

31-01-2017medicaldeviceslegal

An MDR and IVDR transition plan

The year is off to a good start, and so should your company be with its MDR and/or IVDR transition plan. Come again? You haven’t started looking at this yet because the MDR and IVDR are not yet final and the transitional period will run to approximately half 2020? Your management is not interested in […]

17-10-2016medicaldeviceslegal

The MDR – where are we now?

There seem to be a lot of misunderstandings in the market about the current status of the MDR. Some think it’s finished (it’s not, at least not formally) and there is a lot of insecurity about when it will enter into force. Currently the MDR and IVDR are in the process of translation. The trilogue […]