Herbert Smith Freehills is one of the world’s leading professional services businesses, bringing together the best people across our 26 offices to meet clients' legal services needs globally. Our clients trust us with their most important transactions, disputes and projects because of our ability to cut through complexity and mitigate risk. Our Competition, Regulation and Trade (CRT) practice is widely recognised by peers and legal directories as one of the leading teams in the field. We advise clients in a wide range of industries across the full spectrum of competition law and our experts are highly sought after for advice on regulated sectors. Our team regularly advises global pharmaceuticals and life sciences clients across Europe and beyond on competition law issues, ranging from merger control and FDI screening to patent settlement agreements and product lifecycle management strategies to antitrust investigations, litigation and compliance. We regularly advise on the interaction between competition and IP laws, working seamlessly with our litigation, regulatory and IP teams to provide our clients with commercial, joined up advice.