Health

DLA Phillips Fox has one of the largest health and aged care legal practices across Australia and New Zealand. Our team has been the bedrock for our clients for over 30 years. With many of our lawyers having held high level positions within the industry, our team comprehensively understands the complexity and regulatory frameworks of the Australian and New Zealand health and aged care sectors.

Health and aged care is one of the fastest growing sectors of the Australian and New Zealand economies. This will accelerate with the ageing of the 'baby boomers', advances in treatments and therapeutics, the growth in biotechnology, continuing consolidation of the private hospital, health insurer and diagnostic sectors, and the increasing interest in the sector being shown by investors, ICT vendors and other suppliers.

DLA Phillips Fox has responded to the growth and complexity of this system with a simple strategy - by creating a large team of skilled, interlocking health-specific professionals across all our offices who can cover public or private, institutional or individual, commercial or litigious, policy or practice legal needs.

We have:

• Assisted multiple governments, departments and agencies in the creation and evaluation of their policies, and the drafting and review of legislative and other regulatory frameworks.
• Negotiated, bought, sold, leased and joint ventured virtually every possible type of asset in both the public and private health and aged care sectors.
• Advised on risk management and acted for large numbers of health services and health professionals in malpractice, disciplinary proceedings and commissions and inquiries.
• Advised on, drafted and negotiated a huge range of commercial contracts and agreements, including tenders and procurement.
• Facilitated mergers and acquisitions of hospitals, residential aged care and retirement living facilities and private health insurers.
• Assisted wholesalers, manufacturers and retailers of pharmaceuticals.
• Assisted in the protection and commercialisation of intellectual property, advised on clinical trial agreements and established a wide range of research institutes, biotechnology joint ventures and research partnerships.
• Assisted employers in resolving employment and discrimination disputes and addressing OH&S and workers' compensation issues and risk management.

Whatever the issue and whatever your role in health and aged care, one or more of our friendly team will be able to assist you with accurate, pragmatic advice, crisp plain English documents and ongoing support you can trust.