Dentons' dedicated Health Care and Life Sciences teams leverage their industry understanding, legal knowledge, and public sector experience to help clients succeed in increasingly competitive and complex business markets.

Health Care

Dentons understands industry regulations and critical market issues across Central America. Our clients gain the confidence to negotiate contracts, manage financing, secure private equity, obtain licenses and certifications and smoothly complete M&A, restructuring and reorganization transactions. With Dentons by your side, you can navigate Central America's complex regulatory environment when handling litigation, regulatory compliance, operations, labor, and human resources matter, government relations and other business-critical issues.

We provide results-driven business and legal services to organizations including:

• Hospitals and health care systems
• Government agencies
• Insurance companies
• Investors, banks, lenders, and venture capital
• Medical service providers
• Professional associations

Life Sciences

From biotechnology to diagnostics, pharmaceuticals to medical devices, cosmeceuticals to biofuels, companies throughout the life sciences sector trust Dentons for comprehensive legal and business support across Central America.

Our regional team has multijurisdictional, cross-border experience helping life sciences companies in the following areas:

• Corporate structure
• Corporation governance
• Due diligence
• Employee benefits
• Executive compensation
• Capital markets, including financings, IPOs, angel investments and venture capital investments
• IP support and litigation
• Licensing
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Regulatory support

Insights

Panama regulates Medical Devices and Related Products

July 19, 2019

In order to guarantee safety and access to high quality medical devices in the public and private sectors, the Executive Decree No. 83 of April 26, 2019 was published in May 2, 2019 edition of the Official Gazette No. 28765-A.

News and Events

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Dentons Muñoz incorporates Melissa Mora Martin to the firm’s Intellectual Property and Technology practice area

September 2, 2020

Dentons Muñoz announces the incorporation of Melissa Mora Martin to its Intellectual Property and Technology team, starting today, September 2, 2020.