Healthcare & Life Sciences
As population demographics evolve and breakthroughs in life sciences accelerate, the demand for healthcare continues to rise – along with the complexity of risks and regulations.
HKA supports organisations across the healthcare, life sciences, and pharmaceutical sectors in navigating uncertainty, seizing opportunity, and resolving claims and disputes in a dynamic and competitive landscape.
Trusted expertise to meet your healthcare and life sciences needs
HKA has a global network of specialist problem-solvers with firsthand experience of the transformative changes reshaping healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and life sciences. From implantables and wearables to breakthroughs in genomics, bioengineering, and drug development, innovation is accelerating – along with complexity and competition.
Our experts work individually or as part of multi-disciplinary teams to help clients mitigate risk, maximise opportunity, investigate allegations of impropriety or regulatory breaches, and resolve commercial, contractual, intellectual property, and patent disputes.
Why HKA
Worldwide expertise in healthcare, life sciences and pharmaceuticals
HKA is a global leader in risk mitigation and dispute resolution, with deep expertise across medicine, public health, pharmaceuticals, and related scientific disciplines.
As the sector undergoes rapid transformation driven by emerging technologies, shifting markets, and increasing regulation, HKA provides tailored support through a comprehensive team of multidisciplinary specialists. We help clients address a wide range of business-critical issues, including:
- Bankruptcies
- Fraud and corruption
- Insurance claims
- Intellectual property and patents
- Joint ventures
- Licensing agreements
- Post-merger and acquisition
- Regulatory investigations
Our experience spans pandemic-related cost recovery, MedTech joint venture arbitration, patent infringement disputes, and pharmaceutical post-acquisition investigations.
HKA augments your capabilities and capacity to respond to complex requirements – regardless of scale, scope, or geography.
We support clients at every stage, from strategic advisory and claims management to investigations, arbitration, and litigation. Our experts have provided evidence and testimony in hundreds of proceedings before international arbitration tribunals, high courts, federal and state courts, specialised divisions, and judicial and parliamentary reviews across multiple jurisdictions.
HKA supports organisations across healthcare, life sciences, and pharmaceuticals in managing risk, resolving disputes, and navigating regulatory complexity.
Anticipate
Gain greater certainty by leveraging our advisory expertise in compliance, clinical governance, regulatory frameworks, and dispute management.
Investigate
Rely on incisive, multi-disciplinary analysis to uncover root causes, quantify damages, and support accurate, equitable outcomes in complex claims and allegations.
Resolve
Trust our experts to deliver impartial, authoritative opinions and testimony in arbitration, litigation, and regulatory proceedings — across jurisdictions and scientific disciplines.
How we can help
As a global leader in risk mitigation, dispute resolution, and expert witness services, HKA supports healthcare, life sciences, and pharmaceutical firms in managing business-critical conflicts and commercial uncertainty.
Our core services cover your diverse business needs, including:
Antitrust & Competition
Our experts are highly experienced in cases involving antitrust, competition and mergers across the healthcare and life sciences industry. They provide the incisive, impartial and robust evidence essential for sound decisions by businesses, regulators, and courts.
Digital Forensics & Data Security
HKA mitigates risk and enhances business intelligence and personal data protection using a powerful combination of world-class investigative expertise, third-party tools, databases, and platforms enabled by artificial intelligence. We specialise in digital investigations, including eDiscovery, advanced analytics, high-tech crime, blockchain forensics, and cybersecurity.
Economic Damages & Valuation
Robust assessments of economic damages and valuations of business values and losses, shares and other assets are critical in a wide variety of healthcare, life sciences and pharmaceutical disputes involving joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, and competitors. Our consultants support you through the entire dispute cycle – strategic advice, valuations and assessments, settlement negotiations or expert witness testimony.
Forensic Accounting & Investigations
As an independent firm, we can deploy from our full bench of talent without fear of conflicts or compliance issues. We investigate fraud, regulatory breaches, white-collar crime and bankruptcy across jurisdictions. Our teams combine advanced capabilities in financial forensics and data analysis with a thorough understanding of accounting standards and the sector.
Intellectual Property
Our industry-leading and globally recognized intellectual property experts provide specialist dispute services across the IP spectrum, from valuing intangible assets and quantifying damages – including lost profits and reasonable royalties – to preparing accounts of the infringer’s profits, assisting with technology transfers, and providing expert witness testimony.
Technical Services
Our subject-matter engineering, architectural and technical experts cover over 500 specialisms, ranging from toxicology and environmental impacts to heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) and healthcare building standards. They include scientists specialists in the human health impacts of contamination, to environmental sustainability strategy and reporting.
Case Studies
With global reach and multi-disciplinary expertise, HKA helps healthcare, life sciences, and pharmaceutical organisations navigate complexity, manage risk, and resolve disputes with clarity and confidence.
