Legal Alliance Company has the strongest practice in the area of Pharmacy law in Ukraine that allows us to consider all specifics of the Ukraine pharmaceutical market and provide our clients with high-quality legal assistance.

The team of the Legal Alliance pharmacy law practice consists of 13 expert professionals and is the largest in Ukraine. The members of the team include a medical advisor with both pharmaceutical and legal education, a certified mediator with experience in mediating disputes of pharmaceutical market participants, a tax consultant, as well as experienced lawyers specializing in competition law, public procurement and tenders, intellectual property rights, corporate and labor law, anticorruption laws, personal data protection, and legal aspects of advertising and promotion of pharmaceuticals and medical devices.

In 2011, the Legal Alliance won the highest rating in assessment conducted by Corporate INTL Magazine under the nomination “Pharmaceutical Law Firm of the Year Award’ in Ukraine.”

In 2011, the Company won “Ukrainian Legal Olympus” award under the nomination “For Development of Pharmacy Law.” 

In 2010 – 2011, the Legal Alliance was pronounced the leader of the legal services market of Ukraine in the area of Medical and Pharmacy Law by the “Ukrainian Law Firms” Directory.

Numerous times, the Company has been named one of the most recommended Ukrainian law firms by The Legal 500 Series. Since 2004, the Company has been on the list of the 25 best Ukrainian law firms.

An extensive network of partnership law firms practicing pharmacy law in other jurisdictions results in successful implementation of transnational projects in the pharmaceutical area.

We are an official legal partner of AIPM Ukraine (Association of International Pharmaceutical Manufacturers). In 2011, the Company initiated establishment of Pharmacy law Committee under the jurisdiction of the Ukraine Bar Association – one of the largest association of lawyers in this country operating under the leadership of the Company staff.

The Company is one of the few at the Ukrainian legal market who obtained professional liability insurance in the interests of our Clients.

Clients of the Legal Alliance Company include more than 400 Ukrainian, foreign and international companies and corporations. We represent interests of pharmaceutical manufacturers, distribution companies, pharmacy chains, medical facilities and institutions.  We have been entrusted to provide legal support both by well-known global pharmaceutical companies and medium and small businesses:

Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma Gmbh, Pfizer Inc, Merck Sharp and Dohme Idea, Novartis Pharma Services AG, Ipsen, Nizhpharm (Stada), Unipharm Inc., EVER Neuro Pharma GmbH, Richter Gedeon, Nycomed, Delta Medical, GlaxoSmithKline HealthCare, Berlin Chemie Menarini, Mepha, Mir-pharm and others.

Some of the reference letters of our clients you may find here: http://www.l-a.com.ua/eng/recommendations/

The Firm’s experience in the field of  Pharmacy  Law covers:

• legal support for procurement of medicines and healthcare products
• analysis and elimination of competition risks of medicinal product circulation in Ukraine
• mediation in the pharmaceutical area
• adaptation of a company to the new anti-corruption requirements
• protection of the personal data used by a company.
• consulting services in the area of Pharmacy  Law;
• full legal services of pharmaceutical companies  and their representative offices (on general issues);
• legal support of  clinical tests;
• legal counsel on  pharmaceutical products manufacturing;
• counsel on pharmaceutical products import and export;
• legal support of  registering pharmaceutical products and medical devices;
• consulting on intellectual property issues;
• methods of pharmaceutical products promotion: development and legal support of schemes implementation;
• advertising pharmaceutical products (approval of promotional materials, legal support in a case of disputes with competitors and public agencies):
• Antitrust and Competition Law issues;
• Tax Assessment issues;
• Labour issues (such as employment/dismissal, labour agreements etc.);
• development of draft regulatory acts in the field of health care;
• monitoring changes of health care regulations.

The most recent projects, which have been performed by the lawyers of Legal Alliance Company  in the field of Pharmacy  Law, include:

1. Represented the interests of one of the world leaders in pharmaceutical industry in challenging registration of generic pharmaceutical products due to violation of intellectual property rights, and their lack of bioequivalence to the reference pharmaceuticals. 
2. Provided consulting in changing code of pharmaceutical products during their customs processing.
3. Developed a plan for distributing cosmetic samples starting from their import to the territory of Ukraine to delivery of the samples to their end user.
4. Provided consulting to a Russian pharmaceutical company regarding a choice of the legal form for their business in Ukraine.
5. Represented the interests of an American pharmaceutical company in its dispute with a Ukrainian distributor over debt collection in the International Commercial Arbitration Court at the Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
6. Provided legal counseling during restructuring of an international pharmaceutical company.
7. Provided legal counseling to a pharmaceutical company in the Antitrust Committee of Ukraine during consideration of claimant’s complaint regarding unfair competition in the advertising of a dietary supplement.
8. Provided legal counseling for the projects in development and implementation of ways to adapt operation of pharmaceutical companies to the requirements of the anti-corruption law.
9. Provided consulting to an international pharmaceutical company in the issues of using personal data found in integrated pharmaceutical data bases, and bringing such data in compliance with the Ukrainian personal data protection legislation.
10. Developed a plan for optimizing taxation related to property transfers among representative offices.
11. Provided legal counseling for the performance of promotional events by pharmaceutical companies.
12. Analyzed a mechanism for supplying pharmaceutical products to Uzbekistan through a company in Hong Kong.
13. Conducted due diligence inspection of a pharmaceutical representative office.
14. Developed and implemented a distribution chain in the CIS countries for one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world.
15. Developed a plan and provided legal counseling for the performance of clinical trials for a transnational pharmaceutical company based in Switzerland.