Expert SM is pleased to offer You the following services in the field of pharmaceutical law:

• Assistance in registration of drugs, medical equipment and products of medical purpose;

• Legal consulting in issues concerning advertising of drugs, medical equipment and products of medical purpose;

• Drug promotion methods: development and legal support of sales schemes;

• Working out and legal analysis of commercial agreements, including agreements with distributors and joint marketing agreements;

• Drafting and legal analysis of customer’s feedback processing agreements and adapting the standard template of such agreements to Azerbaijani legislation

• Legal regulation of foreign economic activities;

• Consultancy concerning responsibilities for production of inferior products;

• Consultancy on issues concerning clinical investigations on drugs;

• Legal support of clinical researches, including the following:

a) developing legal scheme of financing clinical researches;

b) legal support in issues connected with import of investigated drugs and other articles (test tubes, reagents, equipment etc.), support in issues connected with export of samples, tests etc.;

c) working out contracts/agreements:

o with clinical institution (medical institution conducting clinical investigations)

o with researchers (doctors)

o with tested persons (test participation agreement form)

o on insurance

o on provision of services by experts from governmental organizations authorized to control and record results of investigations

d) cooperation with health authorities in issues concerning conduction of clinical investigations;

• protection of intellectual property rights;

• representing interests of client in cases connected with violation of patent and trademark rights;

• legal support in developing effective schemes of import and distribution of drugs, medical equipment and products for medical purposes, maintenance of their consignment reserves of realization, directed to maximum use of customs and tax privileges applicable to pharmaceutical industry;

• representing and protection of interests of clients before custom authorities both in pre-trial procedures and courts;

• representing and protection of interests of clients before tax authorities both in pre-trial procedures and in courts;

• collecting debts from Azerbaijani distributors, including judicially or through initiation of bankruptcy proceedings;

• working out drafts of legal texts regulating public health issues;

and our general legal services:

• legal consultancy;

• registration of companies with local investments (where investors are Azerbaijani citizens);

• registration of companies with foreign investments (where investors are not Azerbaijani citizens);

• registration of representative and branch offices;

• drafting and providing legal analysis of contracts/agreement;

• legal outsourcing (continuous legal servicing);

• accounting outsourcing (providing full-range accounting services to companies);

• representing interests of clients in courts of different instances;

• winding-up local companies.

Partner of our company in the field of pharmaceutical law is the company “LegalAlliance” – the leader in legal services market of Ukraine in the sphere of medical and pharmaceutical law according to the eighth edition of the directory”Ukrainian Law Firms 2010. A Handbook for Foreign Clients “