Ewan Townsend

Ewan Townsend's practice focusses on the commercial transactions involved in the development, exploitation and commercialization of medicinal products, representing many of the world's most sophisticated biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. His experience includes structuring, drafting and negotiating a wide range of commercial agreements including licence and collaboration agreements, manufacturing, distribution and supply agreements, clinical trial agreements, services agreements and co-promotion/co-development arrangements.

Ewan also advises on the regulatory issues that frequently arise in the context of those transactions and throughout the medicinal product life cycle, particularly in relation to marketing authorisations, manufacturing, distribution, advertising, pricing and reimbursement.

As a reflection of his deep understanding of the industry, since the declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic Ewan has also been working extensively with the vaccine industry to advise on vaccine and antiviral procurement by governments and international organisations including the EU, the African Union, COVAX and CARICOM.

In addition to his work in private practice, Ewan has spent time in-house with GlaxoSmithKline and Gilead in London, and Novartis in Sydney.

Ewan has a degree in natural sciences from Cambridge University, and studied law at a post-graduate level.