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LSP (Life Sciences Partners)

LSP (Life Sciences Partners) is one of the world’s largest specialized healthcare and biotechnology investment firms, investing both in Europe and the US across the entire spectrum of private and publicly traded life science companies.

www.lspvc.com

ABN AMRO

The dedicated healthcare team of ABN AMRO has a long-term track record of successfully completed equity capital markets and M&A transactions in a wide variety of healthcare segments, including Biotech/Pharma and Life Sciences, Medtech and Healthcare Services.

www.merchant-banking.nl

Gold Sponsor

PwC

Profile to follow.

www.pwc.co.uk

Delegate Book Sponsor

NautaDutilh

Dedicated corporate and regulatory advice with full service capacity
Our team is one of Europe's largest and consists of lawyers dedicated to Life Sciences. We have a solid international reputation. We are known for our interdisciplinary capabilities, our industry knowledge and pragmatic and creative approach.

Our services are built around a product's and company's life cycle: from venture capital and financing rounds, commercial agreements and regulatory issues including clinical trials, patent and other litigation, authorisations, reimbursement, risk management and compliance, to every phase of corporate/M&A, IPO's and exits. With our highly skilled specialists in other relevant areas we can truly offer full service.

NautaDutilh serves (inter)national clients in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical devices, food, feed and cosmetics fields, ranging from industry leaders to start-up ventures.

Our corporate practice focuses on advice involving start-ups as well as more mature life science companies, from university spin-offs to advising Johnson & Johnson in its public offer for Crucell.

www.nautadutilh.com

Tea & Coffee Breaks Sponsors

Ernst & Young

About Ernst & Young
Ernst & Young is a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services. Worldwide, our 141,000 people are united by our shared values and an unwavering commitment to quality. We make a difference by helping our people, our clients and our wider communities achieve their potential.

Ernst & Young Global Life Sciences Center
Ernst & Young’s Global Life Sciences Center brings together a worldwide team of professionals to help life sciences companies address their challenges at every stage of development. From the emerging biotech or medtech firm to the well-established, global pharmaceutical company, our industry teams bring deep experience in providing assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services.

www.ey.nl

Hogan Lovells

Hogan Lovells is one of the pre-eminent international leading law firms advising on contentious and non-contentious issues in the pharmaceutical, biosciences and medical devices industries. We advise clients on all matters relating to the full pharma / biotech product life cycle, from clinical trial agreements through to off patent strategy and from early stage financing to IPO or M&A consolidation. Life science is a core sector for the firm. The worldwide team comprises experts in intellectual property, competition, product liability, regulatory, IT and dispute resolution and many of them are scientifically qualified.

Hogan Lovells combines this expertise with a wide experience in the fields of equity capital markets, M&A and finance offering a full legal service for all our life sciences and venture capital clients.

The Amsterdam office comprises six practice areas:

Corporate / M&A
Contact partners: Johannes Buntjer, Victor de Vlaam and Jan de Snaijer (civil law notary)

Intellectual Property / Life Sciences
Contact partners: Klaas Bisschop, Bert Oosting and Marc Wallheimer

Banking & Finance, Business Restructuring & Capital Markets
Contact partner: Ken Breken

Tax
Contact partner: Anton Louwinger

Employment
Contact partner: Anita de Jong

Litigation & Arbitration
Contact partner: Klaas Bisschop

www.hoganlovells.com

Lunch Buffet Sponsor

Merck Serono Ventures

Merck Serono Ventures is a strategic, corporate venture capital fund that invests in emerging biotechnology companies. The fund was started in 2009 with the mandate to invest in early-stage innovative technologies.

Our investments focus on innovative technologies with the potential to impact Merck Serono's focus therapeutic areas: Oncology, Neurodegenerative Diseases, Rheumatology, Fertility and Endocrinology.

As strategic investors, we strive to bring our support to portfolio companies through continued interaction with our internal experts in various areas providing key insights into strategic research planning, marketing and clinical development. We have a streamlined decision-making process to evaluate investment opportunities and enable us to make critical investment decisions faster.

www.merckserono.com

Drinks Reception Sponsor

Loyens & Loeff

Loyens & Loeff offers top-level legal and tax advice for international businesses, financial institutions and government bodies.

Our Investment Management practice is the largest to offer a full range of investment management services in the Benelux. Our practice is multidisciplinary and closely integrated with other related practice areas, such as Private Equity (focusing specifically on private equity transactions such as leveraged buyouts and venture capital transactions), Tax, Real Estate and Banking & Finance.

Thanks to our closely collaborating legal and tax practices, we have built up a unique and very solid position in the market. With about 1600 employees worldwide, consisting of about 400 tax experts and about the same number of legal experts, we are capable of effectively structuring and supervising both domestic and international matters. We provide services from our six Benelux offices and from our eleven branches based in the world's major financial centres.

www.loyensloeff.com