Member Profiles

Bonaccord is a commercial boutique established to support the scientific community. While our largest practice is in life science we also work in the space and satellite, innovative food and drink, specialty chemical and engineering sectors. In addition to legal work we assist our clients with IP and business strategy, sourcing investment and identifying other specialist service providers or partners around the world We aim to establish long term relationships with our clients and pride ourselves on taking a genuine interest in our client’s technologies and success. Our low overhead model and friendly, business savvy approach makes us particularly well suited to working with early stage and smaller businesses who are looking for hands on support.

Samantha leads our products law and life sciences team. She has over 22 years of experience and became a partner in the London office in 2015. She advises on recalls, public inquiries and product liability claims (including group litigation orders), with a focus on the pharmaceutical, medical devices and consumer sectors. The claims she handles are often of a commercially sensitive nature. She represents insurers and manufacturers in some of the largest and most high-profile matters, overseeing claims in the UK and internationally. Notably, Samantha has led hugely significant cases which have shaped the development of product liability law in Europe. She has headed not only the team which successfully defended the DePuy ULTAMET Metal on Metal Hip Litigation, a complex product liability group action culminating in a landmark judgment in the High Court (Gee & Others v DePuy International Limited) but also the team which successfully defended medical device manufacturers in the UK Supreme Court in the case of Hastings v Finsbury Orthopaedics Ltd (1) and Stryker UK Ltd (2).