QUERCUS
MANAGEMENT
All companies need a wide range of business
Company Incubation & Mentoring
Executive Search & Management Assessment
Financial (including Accounting/Audit/Tax)
Human Resources
Insurance
Legal
Photography
Quality Assurance
Those
interested in the services provided by the companies listed below can contact
them directly (in some cases, hyperlinks are included) or via Quercus Management.
This
“Network
Spotlight” initiative is part of Quercus
Management’s pro bono efforts
to promote networking in the
FINANCIAL
Grant Thornton
Grant
Thornton is a firm of financial business advisers. There are 42 offices in the
Services
for bioscience businesses include: business planning and advice
(“Start-Up Pack” available); management accounting service;
fund-raising; business planning workshops, structuring overseas trade;
exploitation of intellectual property rights.
Grant
Thornton has a dedicated high technology business team focused on the
knowledge-based business sectors.
For more
information please contact George Siemieniuch (george.l.siemieniuch@gtuk.com)
or Wendy Hart (wendy.e.hart@gtuk.com).
www.grant-thornton.co.uk/servspec/services/growth/hightech.htp
HUMAN RESOURCES
Biotech Personnel
Biotech
Personnel is a Human Resources consultancy business set up in 1996 by Rod Cook
BSc FIPD. Areas of specialisation include:
·
Start-up assistance, especially in the healthcare
sector
·
Recruitment
·
Reward
management
·
Policy
and procedures
·
Culture-change
programmes.
Also
available are associates in the field of recruitment advertising, occupational
psychology, additional training and employment law. Rod has over 20
years’ experience working in a variety of high technology companies. His
last company role was as Head of Personnel for British Biotech, which he helped
grow from a staff of 90 to over 330. Since the formation of Biotech Personnel,
a substantial client base has been established with assignments varying from
Board-level remuneration advice to a total interim HR service.
Visit our
web site at www.biopers.co.uk for a
list of clients and further information.
LEGAL
Simmons & Simmons
Simmons
& Simmons has one of the most comprehensive practices in the sector and
certainly has a better claim than most to be market leader.... The firm's
experience with contentious and non-contentious IP is exceptionally strong and
that, coupled with a very sound corporate practice, gives it an extremely
powerful presence in the marketplace. (The Insider's Guide to Legal Services:
Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology 2000 - Published by
Simmons
& Simmons is a leading international law firm. Its Biotechnology Practice
Group is multi-disciplinary, principally comprising members of the firm's
Intellectual Property and Corporate departments, but it also draws upon the
firm's strengths in Employment, Tax, European
Competition and Environmental law. The Group has many bioscience-qualified
lawyers and others who have worked in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology
industries. The firm acts for a large number of biotechnology companies at all
stages of their development, as well as for major pharmaceutical companies.
For further
information please contact:
Corporate or
any other enquiry:
Intellectual Property:
Telephone: 020 7628 2020
Fax: 020 7628 2070
E-mail: [firstname.surname]@simmons-simmons.com
Visit our website on www.simmons-simmons.com
or elexica, the interactive online legal resource by
lawyers for lawyers, powered by knowledge from Simmons & Simmons, on www.elexica.com
Manches
·
Providers
of specialist legal advice to science and technology-based companies in
Oxfordshire and the
·
Advisers
to several
·
Advisers
to British universities and research councils on technology transfer.
·
Founder
sponsors of local initiatives to promote innovation, including the Oxfordshire
Investment Opportunity Network and the Oxfordshire BiotechNet.
For further
information, please contact Patrick Baddeley or Chris
Shelley at:
Manches,
Tel: 01865
722106 Fax: 01865 210012
Email: Patrick.Baddeley@manches.co.uk
or visit
our website at www.manches.com
PHOTOGRAPHY
Chris Honeywell
Chris
Honeywell is a specialist industrial photographer with experience of working in
labs and clean room environments. He has undertaken assignments for
biotech-related organisations in both public and private sectors –
including Quercus Management (see the flattering
photos in “The Team”).
For more
information, visit Chris’s web site: www.working-images.co.uk
QUALITY ASSURANCE
Newland GxP Consultancy
Newland GxP Consultancy were set up at the end of 2000 by Vic Edy, and specializes in providing GMP and GLP Quality Assurance services to small and mid-sized biotech and pharmaceutical companies. Services provided include:
Auditing: Quality systems audits, as well as contractor and supplier audits
Validation: Assistance with planning and interpretation of facility and equipment qualification and process validation
Training: GMP training – introductory courses for new staff and specific more advanced topics
Quality Planning: Preparation of Quality Assurance plans for pharmaceutical development programmes
Batch Release: Review of batch manufacturing records and batch disposition for clinical trial materials
Advice: General advice and assistance in all matters of GMP and GLP compliance
For further information contact Vic Edy at Newland GxP Consultancy: info@Newland-gxp.co.uk, or by phone on (01993) 709550, mobile 07855 659909
