Rise In APAC M&A Brings To Fore Registration Transferability Issue
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
The number of M&A deals across Asia Pacific is increasing rapidly. But demonstration of product regulatory compliance is often not transferrable between APAC countries. How do you overcome this and other regulatory hurdles during your M&A deal-making? In this article, Ee Von Teo and Daniel Tan of Wong & Partners, together with their Baker McKenzie colleagues, explain how to manage this dynamic new market opportunity. They also give a breakdown of the different medical device regulatory regimes in APAC and the transferability of registrations and licences by individual countries
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