Nicola Maguire

Partner , Reed Smith

Nicola is a partner at Reed Smith, specialising in advising life sciences companies and other clients whose businesses have a significant reliance on intellectual property. Many of the transactions on which Nicola works have a significant international element, with parties in the U.S. or Europe. She has particular expertise advising clients at all stages of development, from early stage start ups to listed companies, and on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, equity fundings and public offerings. Nicola also advises on general commercial matters such as materials transfer agreements, intellectual property licences, research and collaboration agreements and distribution and manufacturing agreements.