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When Healthcare & Life Sciences Imitate Art
Our first edition of 2022 focuses on Healthcare and Life Sciences. It is a sector that will once again have the spotlight on it this year as we continue to tackle COVID-19 and its subsequent variants. While the pandemic continues to challenge the sector, governments across the region forge ahead with their plans to expand and upgrade healthcare systems and develop robust world-class healthcare infrastructure.
For the region, healthcare is a vital pillar in diversifying its economies, both locally and as medical tourism hubs. To underpin this, healthcare authorities across the region continue to implement frameworks and regulations that provide structure and accountability.
In this edition, you have unique access to great insights and expert commentary on a number of pertinent healthcare regulatory developments. You will find a topical mix of articles; for example, our lawyers discuss vaccines and returning to work during the pandemic. They take you through several other areas, including stem cell research in Bahrain, clinical research laws in Egypt, and Saudi medical device and pharmaceutical laws.
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Samir Kantaria
Partner, Head of Employment & Incentives
Biography
Samir leads the firm’s Employment & Incentives practice which comprises the largest team of specialist employment lawyers in the Middle East. He advises on the full range of employment law issues, contentious and non-contentious, and Samir’s experience includes regularly advising major blue chip, multinational and semi-governmental companies in relation to their day-to-day employment queries. He combines technical expertise with business acumen and project management skills, and is known for giving pragmatic and commercial advice.
Samir is acknowledged as a Band 1 ranked lawyer by Chamber & Partners, as a Leading Individual in Legal 500, and is the only lawyer to be listed in Who’s Who Legal: Thought Leaders – Global Elite 2020 for UAE Labour & Employment.
Recent Experience
- Providing employment input in respect of a transactions within the pharma sector being the two largest asset swap transactions worldwide to date.
- Advising a leading global technology company in respect of the acquisition of a competitor and the resultant ongoing harmonization exercise.
- Managing all the Middle East employment law issues arising from the acquisition by a telecoms hardware company of a global competitor.
- Representing a multi-national chemical company in respect of unfair dismissal and discrimination claims brought in the UAE and the US;
- Acting as Middle East and Africa employment law coordinator for a US multinational medical device, pharmaceutical and consumer packaged goods manufacturing company.
Language(s)
- English
- Gujarati
- Hindi
Education
1993 – Solicitor’ Final Examinations, College of Law
1992 – Bachelor of Law (Hons), University of Warwick
Admission
1996 – Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England & Wales
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