Healthcare
Our specialisms
Health law / Medical disciplinary law / Medical liability law / Governance management and supervision / Collaborations in healthcare / Mergers, takeovers and investments / Control by health insurers / Life sciences / Medical devices
The need to manage healthcare costs, the wish to increase the checks and balances within healthcare institutions and the desire to prevent the misuse of healthcare funds, leads the government to constantly propose new legislation that the healthcare sector needs to implement. In addition to this, the increased focus on data protection and the wide range of possibilities for innovative solutions confronts directors of healthcare institution with a lot of challenges. The same can be said of producers of medical devices that have to meet the Medical Device Regulation and the EU Regulation on in vitro diagnostic medical devices since their introduction. With the right legal partner who knows your organization and objectives well, shares knowledge and expertise and suggests pragmatic solutions, these challenges can also offer opportunities for growth and innovation.
Issues and solutions
Collaboration
In the fast changing healthcare sector, many healthcare institutions realise they need to join forces with other healthcare providers. Saving costs, increasing the quality of care and stimulating innovation are driving forces behind this trend. Healthcare providers must collaborate and make agreements that are both sound and flexible. What is each partners contribution in the partnership? What are the consequences for the workforce? What are the boundaries of competition law to take into account?
To form successful collaborations – from both a legal and financial perspective – legal knowledge has to be combined with sound economic sense.
We offer the special combination of corporate law expertise with years of experience in the healthcare sector. In addition we draw on the expertise of other departments to cover all aspects of a collaboration such as privacy, labour law, compliance, competition law, financing and employee participation.
We are involved in setting up partnerships, creating new healthcare institutions and joint ventures, and effectuating mergers and acquisitions. We also advise on good governance and privacy issues, assist with the negotiations of and implementation of IT projects and assist with tenders.
Our clients
We work for all kinds of care providers, including hospitals, mental healthcare institutions, treatment clinics, care homes and primary care providers. Independent professionals, such as doctors, dentists, nurses and therapists also turn to us for legal advice when they are faced with claims from patients.
Our team
Our Healthcare team includes lawyers from different practice areas, all of them with plenty of experience in the healthcare sector. The combination of knowledge regarding corporate law, governance, compliance, competition law, financing, employee participation and privacy enables us to provide a holistic view on the issues and effective advice for all forms of collaboration, mergers and joint ventures.
Our Healthcare team delivers pragmatic, legal solutions and our personal touch supports fruitful connections between parties in the healthcare sector.
Fenna van Dijk leads the Healthcare team.
Market recognition
The Legal 500 EMEA 2023 - Healthcare & Life Sciences - Ranked
Jointly led by healthcare expert Fenna van Dijk and life sciences specialist Maarten Schut, Kennedy Van der Laan's team handles the full breadth of mandates across the healthcare and life sciences segments. Combining a corporate background with a focus on healthcare, Van Dijk advises on market entry, licenses, clinical research, PPPs and drafting contracts with medical devices companies; she played a key role in the vaccine strategy concerning the Covid-19 pandemic. IP expert Schut advises multinational companies including Nutreco and Syngenta and not-for-profit institutions on conflicts relating to R&D and licensing. With the addition of Joran Spauwen, the practice has gained a specialist in IP-focused transactions in the advanced technologies sector, assisting healthcare service providers with medical devices regulation and negotiating contracts with AI suppliers. He also links the M&A practice to the healthcare and life sciences practice, focusing on innovative companies investing in the health tech industry. Counsel Sophie Van Loon specialises in contract drafting, advisory work and litigation within the life sciences field and associate Eline Lam focuses on corporate, healthcare and regulatory law.
Practice heads: Fenna van Dijk; Maarten Schut; Joran Spauwen
Leading Individuals
Other Key lawyers
Testimonials
- The firm has a good life sciences non-contentious practice with good support for the intellectual property aspects of transactions.’
- ‘Maarten Schut is easy to deal with and good at focusing on the key issues.’
- ‘The webinars on new legislation and dilemmas are extremely informative and easy to follow for laymen and legal experts.’
- ‘The team consists of outstanding lawyers with a practical approach. The firm is our trusted partner for all sorts of health-related legal issues.’
- ‘Experts in tender management’
- ‘The professionality of Kennedy van der Laan is very high, the adequacy and speed in their answers suits my demands’
- ‘Good and nice working relationship with M. Schut. Very knowledgeable, has the ability to see the whole picture and at the same time see the devil in the detail. Good communication and negotiation skills, very nice to work with.’
- ‘Fenna van Dijk and Eline Lam are not only very involved, but also accurate and reliable and think ahead in solving problems. They see not only the legal obstacles, but also the solutions and possibilities.’
The Legal 500 EMEA 2023 - Healthcare & Life Sciences - Ranked
Jointly led by healthcare expert Fenna van Dijk and life sciences specialist Maarten Schut, Kennedy Van der Laan's team handles the full breadth of mandates across the healthcare and life sciences segments. Combining a corporate background with a focus on healthcare, Van Dijk advises on market entry, licenses, clinical research, PPPs and drafting contracts with medical devices companies; she played a key role in the vaccine strategy concerning the Covid-19 pandemic. IP expert Schut advises multinational companies including Nutreco and Syngenta and not-for-profit institutions on conflicts relating to R&D and licensing. With the addition of Joran Spauwen, the practice has gained a specialist in IP-focused transactions in the advanced technologies sector, assisting healthcare service providers with medical devices regulation and negotiating contracts with AI suppliers. He also links the M&A practice to the healthcare and life sciences practice, focusing on innovative companies investing in the health tech industry. Counsel Sophie Van Loon specialises in contract drafting, advisory work and litigation within the life sciences field and associate Eline Lam focuses on corporate, healthcare and regulatory law.
Practice heads: Fenna van Dijk; Maarten Schut; Joran Spauwen
Leading Individuals
Other Key lawyers
Testimonials
- The firm has a good life sciences non-contentious practice with good support for the intellectual property aspects of transactions.’
- ‘Maarten Schut is easy to deal with and good at focusing on the key issues.’
- ‘The webinars on new legislation and dilemmas are extremely informative and easy to follow for laymen and legal experts.’
- ‘The team consists of outstanding lawyers with a practical approach. The firm is our trusted partner for all sorts of health-related legal issues.’
- ‘Experts in tender management’
- ‘The professionality of Kennedy van der Laan is very high, the adequacy and speed in their answers suits my demands’
- ‘Good and nice working relationship with M. Schut. Very knowledgeable, has the ability to see the whole picture and at the same time see the devil in the detail. Good communication and negotiation skills, very nice to work with.’
- ‘Fenna van Dijk and Eline Lam are not only very involved, but also accurate and reliable and think ahead in solving problems. They see not only the legal obstacles, but also the solutions and possibilities.’
The Legal 500 EMEA 2022 - Healthcare & Life Sciences - Ranked
The team at Kennedy Van der Laan is ‘knowledgeable, practical in its approach, pleasant to deal with and delivers a high-quality product’. It is well known in the market for advising clients on corporate, governance, compliance, competition and financing matters. Fenna van Dijk co-heads the practice with over two decades of experience in commercial work; Maarten Schut also heads the team and is recommended for IP. Joran Spauwen is a new election to the partnership.
Practice head(s): Fenna van Dijk; Maarten Schut
Other key lawyers: Sophie van Loon; Joran Spauwen
Testimonials
- ‘The team switches quickly and works well together’.
- ‘The team has various specialists, so that the right advisor is available for every question’.
- ‘Communication is clear and fast’.
