Leading healthtech lawyer joins Mills & Reeve Oxford office

Gayle, who is an experienced commercial health lawyer with an expertise in healthtech, has joined from Mishcon de Reya where she was a partner in the firm’s commercial and technology groups. 

Her appointment also sees a return to Mills & Reeve for Gayle, who was previously head of commercial health at the Birmingham office. In her new role, Gayle will have a national healthtech role, but will be based at the firm’s Oxford office.

Healthtech is a rapidly growing area in the health and care sector. Accelerated by the Covid pandemic, it is now recognised as a crucial and exponentially growing part of the health economy with the market expected to be worth almost £25 billion by 2029. Gayle is well known in the UK independent health sector and health tech sector markets and particularly so in the Oxford technology ecosystem, which is one of Europe’s most successful life sciences and technology clusters, attracting world leading life sciences, healthtech and technology businesses.

Mills & Reeve’s Oxford office is growing rapidly and, since opening in 2022, has recruited more than 20 lawyers and a number of internal relocations to create a highly-skilled offering across several sectors including education, life sciences, technology, real estate/real estate investment, corporate and commercial and private clients.  Gayle’s practice will complement, in particular, the firm’s existing and growing practices in the life sciences and technology sectors in Oxford.

Peter McLintock, head of Mills & Reeve’s Oxford office, said: “It is a great pleasure to not only welcome Gayle to the Oxford office but back to Mills & Reeve. Her reputation in the healthtech sector is unrivalled and Gayle’s appointment is key to our ambitious growth plans to have a full-service offering with dynamic market-facing lawyers delivering outstanding service to clients.”

Gayle added: “I’m excited to be joining Mills & Reeve at a time when health and care tech businesses are delivering transformative innovations to improve service efficiency and make lives better like never before. It’s a great opportunity to be joining such a strong team that is very well placed to help our clients achieve their ambitions.”