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Alice Matthews
Alice Matthews

Alice Matthews

Associate

  • London UK
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Alice assists clients with a wide range of matters relating to the commercialisation of intellectual property rights and a broad range of regulatory and compliance issues concerning healthcare, industrial and consumer products prior to and after launch. She also assists with product safety issues, including supporting in risk management/compliance assessments.

Expertise

Services and Groups

Patents & innovation
Regulatory issues affecting contractual arrangements
Advising on life sciences regulation
Drafting and negotiating patents & know-how commercial agreements

Sectors

Life sciences & healthcare
Cosmetics, food nutrition & supplements
Digital health
Medical devices
Pharmaceuticals
Health & social care and investors
Biotech
Life sciences start-ups and investors

CV

Since 2023 Associate, Taylor Wessing
2021 - 2023 Trainee Solicitor, Taylor Wessing
2024 Postgraduate Diploma in Intellectual Property Law and Practice, University of Oxford
2023 Admitted as a lawyer, England & Wales
2021 LLM in Commercial Legal Practice, BPP University
2020 Graduate Diploma in Law, BPP University
2019 BA (Hons) History, University of Exeter

Career

Since 2023 Associate, Taylor Wessing
2021 - 2023 Trainee Solicitor, Taylor Wessing

Education

2024 Postgraduate Diploma in Intellectual Property Law and Practice, University of Oxford
2023 Admitted as a lawyer, England & Wales
2021 LLM in Commercial Legal Practice, BPP University
2020 Graduate Diploma in Law, BPP University
2019 BA (Hons) History, University of Exeter

Publications

An overview of cybersecurity requirements for medical devices – the EU and UK regulatory landscape, Journal of Medical Device Regulation, Volume 19 Issue 3, Edward Spencer & Alice Matthews, August 2022, pages 1-10.

Experience

Advising an Australia-based investment firm

Advising an Australia-based investment firm on its investment in a global telehealth company providing weight loss prescription services in the UK and Germany.

Alice Matthews

Advising a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company

Advising a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company in administration on the transfer to a purchaser of the rights to a medical device product.

Alice Matthews

Advising a MedTech university spin-out

Advising a MedTech university spin-out company on the drafting and negotiation of a strategic partnership with a global top-10 medical device company.

Alice Matthews

Rockpool Investments

Advising Rockpool Investments on its acquisition on orthoses and clinical services provider Talar-Made Ltd.

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Essential Pharma

Advising Essential Pharma on its acquisition of European rights to Colobreathe® from Teva Laboratories UK Limited.

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Pharmaceuticals

Biopharma partnering update: Q4 2025

25 February 2026

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Advertising skinny jabs – regulators react

15 October 2025
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by Alison Dennis and Alice Matthews

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EU and medicines supply issues (part two): Proposals for future measures

In part two of our article on EU and medicine supply issues we explore the key proposals outlined in pharmaceutical reform and their impact on marketing authorisation holders across the region.

1 October 2025
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by Alison Dennis and Alice Matthews

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