Global Generics

In today's fast-growing, highly regulated worldwide generic pharmaceutical market, companies increasingly need guidance to successfully address a wide variety of complex legal issues. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati's interdisciplinary global generics practice, representing a cross section of key practice areas including intellectual property, litigation, antitrust, regulatory, corporate, and mergers and acquisitions, is uniquely positioned to provide this counsel.

The members of the firm's global generics practice—including attorneys with advanced scientific degrees in areas such as pharmacology, molecular biology, and organic chemistry—work closely with our generic pharmaceutical clients' legal and scientific personnel and senior management to understand and meet their specific needs both in the U.S. and abroad, particularly in the burgeoning China and India markets. These include antitrust counseling, intellectual property counseling and strategic patent planning, regulatory counseling (including Hatch-Waxman), patent litigation (including Paragraph IV), complex commercial litigation, handling government investigations and administrative actions, and compliance issues and audits.