L.E.K.’s team of international life sciences professionals has expertise across all major industry segments and therapeutic areas, and we provide support at each stage of the product life cycle, from drug discovery to post-launch. With a reputation for solving complex issues and helping clients to create lasting value, L.E.K. works closely with life science executives to guide strategic decision making and develop winning strategies in a dynamic global healthcare market.

Capabilities Overview

Small, mid-size and large multinational life sciences companies routinely engage us to:

• Expand into New Markets:  We help our clients to expand into new geographies and market segments. This includes mature and emerging markets; prescription and consumer markets; primary and specialty care markets; chronic, acute, and orphan markets; research and non-research markets; and new, innovative markets. Our market access strategies for clients open the door for growth and long-term value creation.
• Execute Value-Creating Deals:  We support our clients at every stage of the deal life cycle – from evaluation to execution to integration. We have helped our life science clients execute more than $US115 billion worth of transactions including M&As, partnerships, joint ventures, divestitures and royalty monetization transactions.
• Launch Innovative Products and Services:  We team-up with our clients to develop commercial launch strategies in mature and emerging markets. We have a proven track record of success and have supported leading pharmaceutical and biotech brands worth over $US30 billion in annual revenue. Our commercial planning and launch expertise includes pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical drugs, vaccines, life science tools, diagnostics, and associated support services.
• Optimize Operations:  We work closely with our clients to optimize processes, operations, and organizational structures across the life sciences value chain. Our work for clients has increased productivity and contributed to top- and bottom-line growth at the corporate-, business unit-, and operational team-levels in a number of life sciences sectors.

Industry Sectors

L.E.K. has completed more than 2,300 engagements in life sciences – our life sciences practice is a recognized global market leader with local market expertise in America, Europe and Asia. In addition to our life sciences expertise, we have extensive insight in MedTech and Healthcare Services. This provides us with a valuable perspective and makes us uniquely qualified to help our life sciences clients with a broad range of strategic issues. At L.E.K., we provide unrivaled support to our clients in:

• Branded biopharmaceutical drugs
• Branded pharmaceutical drugs
• Consumer/OTC medicines 
• Contract services (CROs, CMOs, etc.)
• Diagnostics and personalized medicine
• Drug delivery
• Generics and follow-on biologics 
• Life sciences tools

Click here to learn how L.E.K. has been instrumental in helping a biotechnology company grow into a global market leader during its 20-year relationship.

Please contact us at lifesciences@lek.com for additional information.