Our network

Our clients come to us for our skill-sets and experience drawing from decades in health technology working with and for clients ranging from top-tier players to SMEs and startups. We pride ourselves on the caliber and diversity of our exceptional client base. We have several satisfied clients willing to testify on our achievements for them.

Our clients are:

  • healthtech CEOs, CFOs, CLOs, CTOs and VPs Sales/Marketing 
  • healthtech inventors and entrepreneurs launching or developing a new venture
  • healthtech investors and wealth managers
  • healthtech incubators, accelerators & “translators"
  • healthtech nonprofits and foundations
  • healthtech industry consultants

Some of our clients and partners

SPT advises and supports a variety of healthtech players based in Switzerland and elsewhere in Europe and beyond — manufacturers, investors, accelerators/incubators, inventors, entrepreneurs, startups, universities, nonprofits and consultants.

Appleton Luff

Sylvain Poitras is Partner and Head of the lifesciences practice at international law firm Appleton Luff.

EPFL

Sylvain has developed and has been teaching a course on medtech law (innovation, CE-marking, contracting, compliance) at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) since 2010.

Healthtech startups

SPT advises and supports startups active in a number of medical spaces, including in the cardiac, neuro, ortho, genetic, IVD and urology spaces.   

Mature healthtech firms

SPT advises and supports European and US mature healthtech firms on a variety of fronts such as go-to-market steps and business scaling up.

Investors

We advise healthtech investors on their potential and actual investments (legal and SWOT audits).

Non-profits

We advise non-profit including foundations and professional associations.

Ethics committees

We advise ethics committee on local and cross-border issues.

Regulators and governments

We advise health regulators and governments on various legal and policy issues including international and cross-border health matters.

University of Neuchâtel

Sylvain has developed and has been teaching a course on medtech law (innovation, CE-marking, contracting, compliance) at the University of Neuchâtel under the auspices of the Swiss Health Law Institute since 2010.

GMAC

GMAC is a group of independent medtech business angels that invests in promising early-stage medtech ventures sharing a few fundamental principles.

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Masschallenge Switzerland

Sylvain has been a coach to early-stage healthtech startups and award selection judge since its inception in 2016.  In the 2018 run, MassChallenge Switzerland received some 1’000 applications, selected some 60 ventures for the coaching programme and selected 12 award winners, half of which in lifesciences.

MassChallenge Israel, Tel Aviv

Sylvain accepted an offer to be added to the roster of coaches of MassChalkenge Israel starting in 2020.