Penny Powell

Partner at Hogan Lovells

Speaker

Penny has extensive experience in the life sciences sector. Understanding her clients’ business requirements is her key to advising clients on their most important commercial transactions, while maintaining a focus on her specialist industry sectors.

Penny advises on a variety of arrangements that go to the core of clients' on-going business and has particular experience of advising on M&A as well as helping companies structure and negotiate their most complex commercial transactions, including complex joint venture and collaboration arrangements, license and collaboration deals and sourcing/service arrangements.

Clients turn to Penny for her combined strengths as an M&A and a commercial transactions lawyer as she understands not just the anatomy of getting a deal to completion, but also how a relationship will work out once the ink has dried on the contracts.

Clients also work with Penny on hybrid transactions such as M&A and licensing transactions, options to acquire companies or technology, development arrangements and product divestitures. She advises clients on transitional service, manufacturing and supply, distribution, promotion, development, and clinical trial agreements and other operational agreements throughout a product life cycle that often accompany transactions.

Focusing on the life sciences, technology and automotive industry sectors gives Penny an in-depth understanding of relevant regulation as well as the practical steps needed to implement it, which can be critical to securing the optimal structural pathway for a transaction.