The legal and regulatory challenges of getting a biosimilar product to market

22 August 2017
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After a  pharma view on biosimilars was provided in our previous Expert View column, a legal perspective is provided by Nick Beckett, managing partner at CMS Beijing and global co-head of the firm's lifesciences sector group.

The global biosimilars market is expected to reach $10.9 billion by 2021, according to the Biosimilars Global Forecast.

Although biosimilar products represent a major opportunity for the pharmaceutical industry, compared to small molecule drugs, bringing these complex proteins to market can be a real challenge, as we explore below.

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