Health Care

Global expenditures on health care are approaching seven trillion US dollars a year, or roughly 10 percent of the world’s gross domestic product. More than 70 percent of these expenditures occur in North America and Europe alone. Not surprisingly, opportunities are immense and growing in the health and life sciences industry, for businesses that include: pharmaceutical and device manufacturers, research and development organizations, information technology companies, providers, clinicians, insurers and entrepreneurs of every stripe.

These opportunities are local, national and global. A 100-bed community hospital in Kansas City wants to form a joint venture for an ambulatory surgery center with 11 cardiologists from St. Louis. A children’s hospital in Abu Dhabi wants to partner with a teaching hospital in Paris. A device manufacturer headquartered in Bonn wishes to market its products in Hong Kong. A Russian pharmaceutical company seeks approval from the US Food and Drug Administration for a new anti-coagulant. An e-health company headquartered in Barcelona wants to license its health records software to an IT consultant in Kampala. The list may be long, but the number of law firms that can handle this range of matters is not.

The firm must have a presence, on the ground and around the world. The firm must have a deep bench of lawyers who have spent decades immersed in the health and life sciences sector, helping organizations navigate continuously evolving political, regulatory and economic landscapes. The firm must understand each jurisdiction’s health care delivery system—from manufacturer to distributor to provider to patient to payor to policy maker—and the firm must be able to provide each of these players with the full range of strategic transactional, regulatory and dispute resolution counseling services.

With offices in 79 locations in 52 countries across four continents, and with more than 100 lawyers, consultants and policy professionals who have spent their entire professional careers exclusively counseling health care life sciences organizations, Dentons is proud to be that firm.

Defense and Space

The global defense industry deals in complex, very high-value products, vital to the security of numerous nations.

Defense contractors operate at the interface of business and government and much of what they do, including their research and development, is both publicly funded and subject to tight security. Governments compete many defense contracts, but some are directly negotiated without competition, and so long-term relationships with government entities are critical. Defense industry disputes can be substantial, complex and involve such issues as procurement law, sovereign contracts, intellectual property and, often, international trade.

The defense industry therefore demands lawyers able to work on the most valuable and complex competitive processes, contracts and disputes; lawyers who understand how both government and business work and whose discretion is assured; and lawyers who can apply their skills and experience in exacting circumstances and strict security.

Dentons’ lawyers work for defense contractors and governments globally. They deploy deep understanding of public and private law to work on major platform, systems and ordinance sales and purchases, contracts for the management of defense sites and facilities, and the operation and maintenance of defense equipment. Dentons’ lawyers will represent you in defense industry disputes and litigation of every kind, with confidence grounded in real industry knowledge.

Dentons’ services include working closely with corporate clients to develop strategies to secure government contracting opportunities. We also act as trusted advisers to government clients in navigating public law to design procurement processes in competitive and non-competitive procurements.