Osborne Clarke advised London listed Oxford Biomedica plc on the French law aspects of its acquisition of 100% of the shares of ABL Europe SAS from Institut Mérieux. Oxford Biomedica is a world-leading cell and gene therapy CDMO with multi viral vector capabilities across multiple sites in the UK, the...

Echopoint Medical, a cardiovascular diagnostic technology company and a UCL spinout, has secured £4.2 million in Series A funding round. The investment will support the company's flagship iKOr system through FDA approval for the US market. The iKOr system, developed following a successful clinical trial at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, aims...

International law practice Osborne Clarke has advised King's College London on its establishment with ValiRx PLC ("ValiRx") of Cytolytix Limited ("Cytolytix), a new ValiRx subsidiary formed to progress the preclinical development of its triple negative breast cancer treatment, CLX001 based on IP licensed from King's College London. Osborne Clarke's team...

International law firm Osborne Clarke welcomes Tom Lewis as a partner and Head of Corporate Structuring and Simplifications (CSS) in its Corporate team. Tom has over 10 years' experience specialising in CSS work and leading international business reorganisation projects. He is a company law expert who focuses on corporate group...

Global Healthcare Opportunities, or GHO Capital Partners LLP (“GHO”), the European specialist investor in global healthcare, and Partners Group, a leading global private markets firm, acting on behalf of its clients, have announced an investment in GHO portfolio company Sterling Pharma Solutions, a global Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisation. Osborne...

International legal practice Osborne Clarke has advised longstanding client and leading private equity investor Synova on its investment in Mecsia, a national provider of compliance-led, technical inspection and maintenance services, to support the next phase of its growth. Mecsia generates revenues of more than £100m and is growing sales organically...

International law firm Osborne Clarke has advised Mera Investment Management ("Mera IM"), a specialist real estate lender, as it secures significant equity backing from a private family office to accelerate its growth plans and future lending ambitions. The investment will see Mera IM look to deploy some £100m of lending...

First Intuition , the award winning specialist provider of accountancy training, has received a significant investment from Apiary Capital . First Intuition Ltd delivers accountancy training to thousands of learners via centres in London, Birmingham, Manchester, and through online and hybrid courses. First Intuition’s apprenticeship and commercial training pathways both...

The Council of the European Union has today reached a significant milestone by finally agreeing on the text of the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), following a series of meetings since the provisional political agreement was reached between the Council and the European Parliament. The road to agreement has...