Life Sciences and Healthcare

We’re at the forefront of legal expertise in life sciences and healthcare. Whether you're starting a new business or growing your portfolio, we offer sector experience and legal expertise in intellectual property and IT, corporate governance, commercial contracts, employment law and data protection to help you achieve your goals.

Serving the healthcare sector

The healthcare sector is known for its complexity, linked with technological, regulatory, and organisational challenges. We can your needs with a comprehensive mix of legal knowledge. 

 

Our experience is extensive, as we work with clients from innovative life science startups to NASDAQ-listed companies and major NHS boards. This ability to deliver tailored solutions across the healthcare spectrum truly sets us apart. 

The team have shown a strong grasp of the topics and at each turn have been able to guide us through a very challenging contractual dispute.

Chambers and Partners

Highly professional, client-centric with prompt, yet reliable response times and expert subject matter across various aspects. Always positive, calm and calculated, which has a positive effect on the client.

LEGAL 500

Partners are personally involved, solution-focused and skilled at representing clients. They demonstrate excellent commerciality and deliver excellent outcomes in complex transactions.

Chambers and Partners UK Guide 2025

The team has a deep understanding of the sector, provides an excellent service in terms of responses and focuses on the real issues, whilst able to move beyond any challenges faced with practical solutions

Legal 500

Comprehensive sector expertise

Our expertise lies in navigating the complex interplay of legal and commercial challenges in healthcare. We have a proven track record in areas like intellectual property asset identification and protection, significant healthcare project advice under PFI and PPP schemes, and comprehensive legal services in mergers and acquisitions.  

 

Our expertise in advising on angel and venture capital investments is underscored by our high-value contract work, notably with Terumo Aortic UK and with Mercia Asset Management PLC's investment in Invizius Limited, which also included the associated licensing of its intellectual property. 

 

We regularly act on the sale and acquisition of care homes, such as with Creggan Bahn Limited and Renaissance Care. Our legal guidance has also been instrumental in the restructuring of prominent groups like the Meallmore Group.

Your trusted legal partner

Our approach is built on collaboration. By building a long-term relationship with you, we can better understand your unique needs and challenges. This partnership ethos has underpinned successful outcomes for our clients, like our assistance to HSBC in restructuring deals and our proactive work with start-ups in the medtech, diagnostics, and agriculture and aquaculture sectors. Ultimately, our goal extends beyond legal advice. We aim to be your strategic ally in growth and success. 

Traditionally modern for over 400 years

We have been offering legal advice for a very long time – all the way back to 1614 in fact. Our clients have evolved over the years, and so have we.

2023

Morton Fraser and MacRoberts merge, creating a new style of law firm for the top-tier in Scotland.

Mfmac Merger With Chris Harte And Neil Kennedy

2017

Yuill + Kyle, one of Scotland's leading debt recovery and credit control practices, becomes part of MacRoberts.

2007-13

Morton Fraser acquire the Edinburgh firm Skene Edwards, and later merge with Macdonalds. Picture: Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal opens the firm's Quartermile offices in Edinburgh.

Plaque Unveiling

2010

MacRoberts move to the firm's present Glasgow offices, in the Capella building on York Street.

Capella Glasgow

2000

Morton Fraser & Milligan WS shorten name to Morton Fraser.

1985-87

MacRobert, Son and Hutchison open first Edinburgh office, in Walker Street. The firm officially changes name to MacRoberts.

1961-68

During the 1960s, Morton Fraser merge with J & J Milligan WS. The two firms becoming known as Morton, Smart, Macdonald & Milligan WS, before merging again with Fraser, Stodart & Ballingall WS to become Morton, Fraser & Milligan WS.

1915

The Morton Fraser practice undergoes an amalgamation to become known as Morton, Smart, Macdonald & Prosser WS.

1910

MacRobert, Son and Hutchison open their first office in Glasgow, at 7 West George Street.

1877

Charles Morton, Morton Fraser's founding partner, is a signatory to the Articles of Association of The Distillers Company Limited, which later became Diageo Scotland Limited, a cornerstone of the international drinks portfolio listed on both the London and New York stock exchange.

1861

Qualified in 1858, Thomas MacRobert founded his firm aged just 31. In 1890, Thomas MacRobert Jnr and an employee, Mr Hutchison, were added as partners, and the firm became known as MacRobert, Son and Hutchison.

1829

The Morton Fraser practice in Edinburgh can be traced back to 1829, when it was founded by Charles Morton who set up as Greig & Morton WS in partnership with James Greig.

1614

John Wilson who put up his plate as a writer in Glasgow around 1614, establishes the Macdonald's law firm, eventually merging with Morton Fraser in 2013.

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