Debevoise combines a laser-like focus on client objectives, with deep transactional and litigation experience across a wide range of sectors in the healthcare & life sciences industry.
Andrew L. Bab
Mark P. Goodman
Maura Kathleen Monaghan
Kevin A. Rinker
Paul D. Rubin
Recognized as Law360’s Healthcare Group of the Year (2024)
Ranked among the leading New York firms for Healthcare
“Debevoise & Plimpton’s [Healthcare & Life Sciences Group] gives us advice not only from a legal perspective but also from a business perspective. The firm is very responsive and always available.”
—Chambers USA, 2025
Ranked among the leading U.S. firms for Healthcare Service Providers and Life Sciences
“Extraordinary team who works incredibly well together and maximize their different skills and areas of expertise.”
“[A] high level of expertise with wide range of complementary skills.”
—The Legal 5050 US, 2025
Named “Regulatory Firm to Watch” by LMG Life Sciences (2021)
The Debevoise Healthcare & Life Sciences Group employs a highly coordinated, multidisciplinary approach to address transactional, litigation and intellectual property matters for leading healthcare & life sciences companies and for private equity firms investing in the industry. The team provides integrated, cross practice legal advice with efficient and seamless execution covering all aspects of healthcare & life sciences matters, including corporate and M&A, litigation and compliance, FDA/FTC regulatory, intellectual property, including licensing and collaboration agreements, and cyber security & data privacy. This approach offers clients a “one-stop-shop” for healthcare and life sciences across nearly all subsectors and stages of the industry lifecycle. The practice’s lawyers are knowledgeable about the issues faced by companies operating and investing in the sector, which enables the Group to develop comprehensive and commercial strategies and solutions.
The Group draws from a broad array of practices throughout the firm, leveraging its experience in private equity, M&A, finance, capital markets, restructuring, litigation, government and regulatory investigations, tax, intellectual property and antitrust, among others. It is well versed in the increasingly global issues facing healthcare & life sciences clients and is well positioned to address those issues through the sophisticated capabilities of the firm’s offices around the world.
The team handles significant transactions and regulatory and litigation matters in a wide variety of areas for pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, medical device manufacturers, financial sponsors, financial advisors and other key players in the industry. The Group’s transactional work includes mergers and acquisitions, financings, securities offerings, licensing, development and commercialization transactions, while its litigation work spans investigations by U.S. government agencies, “bet-the-company” defense work, compliance with U.S. regulatory requirements and defense of intellectual property rights.