AI Collaborations – From Strategic License to Strategic Acquisition
Artificial intelligence continues to reshape healthcare delivery, particularly in diagnostics, imaging, and care coordination. For established healthcare platforms seeking to integrate innovative capabilities, effective transactions are not always single-step acquisitions. Phased relationships, beginning with commercial alignment and structured with the potential for full-scale integration, can provide a disciplined path to innovation.
For technology and life sciences transactions counsel, this raises a critical question: how can parties structure an initial collaboration to accelerate deployment while preserving long-term strategic optionality?
The EU AI Act’s Machinery Exemption: Does It Extend to Surgical Robotics?
The EU’s latest AI reforms are intended to reduce regulatory duplication for products already subject to extensive sector-specific regulation. For manufacturers of surgical robotics, however, they leave unresolved how AI embedded within increasingly sophisticated surgical systems will be regulated in practice.
