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With over 30 years’ experience of delivering live public, inhouse and e-learning courses to a wide range of industries, IPI is a global leader.

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Commercial & Business Law

IPI Academy offers a wide-range of business and commercial law courses for the in-house lawyer that are presented both as public and in-house training courses, in order to fulfil all your (and your department’s) training needs.

Commercial agreements and contracts provide the foundation for businesses to operate and are fundamental to the success of a business. Without carefully constructed agreements, disputes and litigation are more likely. Whether you are looking to improve your legal drafting skills or simply keep abreast of the latest developments in international business law and best-practice.

Corporate Strategy

IPI Academy offers corporate strategy training courses covering the essential skills and best practices for all Company Directors and Company Secretaries, as well as business leaders and entrepreneurs. Our products also cover a large selection of topics to help you navigate through potential mergers and acquisitions to ensure the best outcomes for you and your business.

Both Directors and business leaders need to understand their full range of complex duties and responsibilities, and how to minimise the company’s liabilities while strengthening its stability. The corporate, business and functional strategies of a business all need to be evaluated, critically analysed and built on to ensure a successful growing business in the face of today's challenges.

 

Life Sciences

Our life sciences training courses cover Pharmaceuticals, Medical Devices, IVDs, Biotech/Biopharma and Animal Health and have been designed to focus on regulatory affairs, clinical trials, pharmacovigilance, medical writing, latest developments, and best practices (GxP).  Our portfolio of events is extensive and provides training from basic to advanced levels in a variety of formats.  

The pandemic created numerous challenges across all areas of business worldwide and companies had to respond and adapt very quickly. Now, as the healthcare sector emerges stronger and with renewed strategy, life science companies continue to focus on key areas for development, explore the use of emerging technologies, and seek opportunities to harness collaborations and build resilience. 

Leadership & Management

Whether you are looking for a refresher course or to learn additional skills to adapt to a new career challenge, our wide-ranging, innovative, highly stimulating and challenging leadership and management training courses will allow you to reach your, and your company's, goals.

Focusing on improving your leadership and management skills is key to enhancing your business capabilities and securing your position as an influential part of the business. With so much change taking place and being faced with many new challenges now is the time to focus on your skills in leadership, innovation, strategy, communication, finance, problem solving and conflict management, to name a few key areas.

IP & Patents

Whether you are looking to get to grips with the latest processes and procedures, draft effective agreements or simply keep abreast of latest legislation and developments, IPI Academy offers a wide range of IP training courses, presented both as public or in-house events to fulfil your patenting and intellectual property training needs.

Whilst the world’s national IP laws have become more consistent over recent years, the world of intellectual property is still a complex area. In order to legally and efficiently protect and exploit IP rights to the best advantage it is paramount that businesses stay abreast of latest developments and best practice.

Commercial Management

IPI Academy's commercial management courses, are especially designed for the commercial/contracts manager, will give you best practice knowledge and skills to make difficult decisions effectively and confidently as well as allowing you to gain a sound grasp of contract law and understand the financial principles and business implications on which a contract is built.

The role of a commercial/contracts manager is exceptionally demanding and complex, especially as companies are increasingly looking at cost as a means of providing competitive advantage. By proactively managing contracts and understanding the commercial implications for your business you will be able to anticipate risks and resolve problems before they arise.

Facilities Management

The role and responsibilities of the Facilities Manager should not be underestimated. There is a plethora of fast-changing legislation that needs to be considered for the smooth running of your business. 

Our publications and bespoke training offer a wide range of topics to help assist you in navigating potential risks in relation to fire safety, industrial accidents and all the vital aspects of facilities and property management.

HR & Wellbeing

Whether you are looking to recruit, get up to speed with the latest developments in the law or for guidance on latest best practice, we offer a wide range of HR management training courses and events for Human Resources professionals that are presented both as public and in-house courses, in order to fulfil your (and your department’s) training needs.

Employees are a company’s most valuable asset and the role of the HR function is to take responsibility for the management and allocation of this resource, ensuring that the needs and strategic objectives of the business are met.

 

Reinsurance

Our insurance and reinsurance training courses cover up to the minute issues and the latest legal developments: from understanding contract wordings, how to draft contracts, how to respond to and manage claims and dealing with disputes, to the management and personal skills needed to succeed in this arena.

The international insurance and reinsurance sector is a highly technical and specialised area. Reinsurance contracts, in particular, play a major role in reducing an insurer’s exposure to losses, assist with capital management and, if drafted correctly, can protect against insolvency.

Finance Management

IPI Academy has developed a range of finance management training courses offerings to suit the fast-paced changes needed to face today’s challenges. Our range of formats gives individuals a real choice in how to gain this crucial knowledge.

Focussing on the core financial aspects of a business has never been so important as we navigate out of the global pandemic and focus on what this means to our businesses going forward. A complete understanding of the latest financial standards and best practice procedures are crucial to maintaining financial stability whilst driving your business forward.

Sales & Marketing

Our collection of sales and marketing training formats covers the key tools, strategies and techniques to give you the skills and confidence to help you achieve successful marketing account management, sales growth and improve your, and your organisation's performance.

Sales and marketing are two key functions that impact both the creation of new business and overall business revenue and success. Focusing on the latest best practice and building your key skills will enable you to target and retain more valuable customers and reduce the duration of the sales cycle.

Latest reviews

The session was highly interactive, and the speaker was very open to questions, providing detailed explanations and insights. Their willingness to dive deep into the topics made the session both engaging and informative.

9 Jul 2025

Understanding Computer System Validation (CSV)

Excellent. I believe I accomplished what I wanted to gain from this course: to learn more about the relevance of signal detection and the process of conducting signal detection. Very proficient speaker and knowledgeable about the topic.

7 Jul 2025

Signal Detection and Regulatory Expectations

A 10 overall. I hoped to have an overview of pharmacovigilance, learning the most relevant points. It has pleasantly fulfilled my expectations.. Despite not being 100% fluent in English, I could understand [speaker] quite well as he explained himself in a way that captured something as big as pharmacovigilance-very well.

3 Jul 2025

Introduction to Veterinary Pharmacovigilance

The Speaker was very well informed, clear in his presentation technique and keen and quick to address any questions. The content, pace and flow of the webinar was well judged and the way we were provided with examples of signals was very useful.

3 Jul 2025

Introduction to Veterinary Pharmacovigilance

Excellent and would recommend.

1 Jul 2025

Pharmacovigilance Aspects of Licensing Agreements

I was hoping to gain a deeper insight on how other Attorneys and Lawyers pursue Due Diligence and FTO.. it was pretty much perfect, and certainly lived up to my expectations. I thought the speakers provided great variety, informative and clear. They also tailored the presentation to the people who attended, and very patient, and open to answering a wide range of questions. Overall, it was a great day- insightful and highly engaging. I recommend attending the face-to-face session, as it was well tailored to the audience.

1 Jul 2025

IP Due Diligence & Freedom to Operate in Practice

Speaker was very clear and knowledgeable, delivering a well structured course, with good slides to accompany it. I found it highly valuable and it gave me a good introduction into the MENA region. 5/5.

1 Jul 2025

The Common Technical Document (CTD) Submission in the MENA Region

The objective was to gain an understanding of the regulatory area within the MENA regulatory domain, and the webinar proved to be a valuable source of critical information. The speaker was kind enough to address [all] my queries..

1 Jul 2025

The Common Technical Document (CTD) Submission in the MENA Region

Very good, I liked the webinar very much. The speaker was very motivated to guide us through this big topic of EI. She was very-well prepared, the slides were easy to understand and she had a lot of exercises so the seminar was not boring at all. The only tiny room for improvement (that's why I rated 4 instead of 5) was the speed which seemed quite fast.. I would have [liked] a second every now and then to reflect on potential questions. However I would recommend to get more confidence in dealing with difficult situations.

30 Jun 2025

Working with Emotional Intelligence in the Pharmaceutical and Biopharma Industry

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Rupert Hawke

Rupert Hawke, founder of Hawke Legal, has a business degree and is a qualified management accountant. He spent the first 10 years of his career working in multi-national business. In 2007 he was appointed Finance Director of Cartwright King Solicitors – then a regional East Midlands firm. Firstly as FD and then as Managing Director (appointed 2013), Rupert oversaw CK’s journey to becoming a national law firm with 18 offices nationwide offering a wide range of legal services and renowned for a great culture, quality staff, and cutting edge IT systems.

Through his wide-ranging managerial experience in the legal sector, Rupert is a leading authority on law firm financial / strategic management and its application, and has contributed to numerous publications and spoken widely including for The Law Society.

After 12 years at Cartwright King Rupert decided he wanted a new challenge and started Rupert Hawke Legal – a consultancy that utilises the mass of experience and contacts Rupert has developed in his leading role in the legal sector.

Farah Nadeem

Farah Nadeem is an Operations Manager at Paul R. Palmer Limited/ Pharmaceutical Consultant and a Trainee Qualified Person. Farah is a Pharmacist and recognised QA expert and has over 20 years of experience in the Pharmaceutical industry in the development, manufacture and supply of medicinal products.

Throughout her career, she has held various quality assurance roles and actively pursued new opportunities to expand her knowledge and expertise. As a result, she has gained a comprehensive understanding of manufacturing, storage, and distribution processes, as well as the facilities and services that support them. Involved in documentation management: writes, reviews, and audits SOPs and QMS implementations. Assists companies in meeting regulatory requirements.

In her current role as a QA Operations Manager for a Pharmaceutical Consultant Company, Farah Nadeem provides various solutions, including assistance in obtaining the first MIA(IMP) and MIA licenses, as well as preparation and hosting for regulatory inspections. Her work involves collaborating with Paul Palmer to offer services such as QP declarations for API manufacturers, regulatory inspection hosting, commercial and clinical batch release, compliance audits, and coaching and training in GxP.

Susanne Hall

Susanne Hall began her career in 1990 at Dr. Karl Thomae (today known as Böhringer Ingelheim) in Biberach as Head of Packaging Technology. In 1993, she joined Vetters Research and Development department as Head of Packaging Material Incoming Control and in 2008 was named Team Leader of Secondary Packaging.

Since 2019, she has been the Director of Secondary Packaging and AVI Projects. In this position, Susanne leads three teams that ensure the implementation of customer products from development to commercial into production. For secondary packaging this includes device assembly, labeling and final packaging as well as implementing tests for a controlled safe process and the meeting of customer expectations. She is also responsible for the transfer of products from manual visual inspection to fully automated inspection lines.

Susanne has a diploma in engineering from the College of Engineering where she focused on specialized precision engineering.

Dale Charlton

Dale Charlton is a Freelance Consultant for automation and fill / finish. Dale has spent a lifelong career in Life Sciences and Biotechnology encompassing both the academic and industrial sectors. Dale worked in a technical capacity in basic R&D at a major University and EMBL Heidelberg before embarking on a more formal academic career in biotechnology and studying for a PhD within the Drug Discovery Group of Pfizer into growth factor research (rGH, GHRF, IgF) . With industrial spells at Porton Down and Pittman-Moore (formerly Glaxo Animal Vaccines) in API and API scale-up, Dale settled back into biotech manufacture and moved more into the supply chain of finished drug products for small molecules & biologics, first as the MD of a life sciences distribution company and later as Director of Business Development, Optima pharma in sterile production automation. Having worked in the pharmaceutical industry from R&D to finished drug product, Dale has a unique understanding of the entire drug development life cycle and offers insight from both the pharma and a suppliers perspective.

Andreas Rothmund

Dr. Andreas Rothmund is Qualified Person (retd) at Vetter Pharma-Fertigung in Ravensburg, Germany, an independent contract manufacturer specialised in the aseptic production of pre-filled application systems. He started his industrial career in 1985 as a lab manager. After two years he took over production responsibility for a German company specialised in eye drops and eye ointments, a position he held for nearly eight years.

He joined Vetter in 1994, where he has held several positions, including Head of Production for one of Vetter’s aseptic production units. He holds a degree in organic chemistry from the University of Constance, Germany.

Silke Weiss

Silke Weiss is a fully qualified lawyer with a Master's degree in Intellectual Property from Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. She has worked at WIPO since 2008, initially in WIPO's PCT

Legal Division before moving to the Hague System Legal Division. Prior to that, she worked in a law firm in Germany and at the University of Economics in Vienna, Austria.

Xiaodan Dai

Ms. DAI joined Madrid Operations Division of WIPO in 2018. In her role as an examiner, she has focused on the examination of international applications, renewals, modifications, corrections, and other related tasks. Additionally, she is dedicated to delivering exceptional customer services to Madrid clients, offering precise and prompt responses tailored to their specific inquiries with her comprehensive knowledge of the Madrid system. Furthermore, she actively contributes as a member of an internal board, collaborating to establish consistent resolutions on examination practice issues. 

Prior to joining WIPO, Ms. DAI served as a senior trademark examiner at China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA), specializing in Madrid System. Throughout her tenure, she acquired extensive experience and expertise in conducting trademark examinations under Madrid System. She spearheaded the successful development of the Madrid e-Filing service of CNIPA and facilitated Madrid e-Communication between CNIPA and WIPO, along with the development of an internal examination system tailored for Madrid filings. 

She has been invited as speaker to several webinars conducted in both English and Chinese languages, where she shares her expertise and insights on topics related to international applications under Madrid system. 

Catherine Dupenloup

Catherine Dupenloup joined WIPO in 1996 and presently works as a Senior Applications Support Assistant in the Madrid Information and Promotion Division, Madrid Registry, Brands and Designs Sector. Since 2012, she has been the focal point for user Support in relation with Madrid System Online Services. Before 2012, she worked at the WIPO IT helpdesk as a user support for IT matters.

Kathy Daniels

Professor Kathy Daniels retired from Aston University in the summer of 2024. Whilst at the University she held a number of managerial roles, latterly Associate Pro-Vice Chancellor (Engagement).  Prior to joining Aston University Kathy held a number of senior roles in HR in the manufacturing sector. Kathy runs her own consultancy, writing, talking and advising – primarily in the area of employment law. She has written a number of books, including a textbook on employment law soon to be in its seventh edition. She is a member of the Employment Tribunal, sitting in Birmingham.

Rowena Tolley

Rowena Tolley, a trade mark partner with Kilburn & Strode. She has almost 20 years of experience helping businesses protect and build value in their brands.  She specialises in helping UK-based businesses in their international growth, as well as US and EU multinationals for whom the UK market is key. There are very few countries where Rowena hasn’t filed trade marks, making her an expert in the local nuances of international brand protection. Her work includes everything from multi-jurisdictional clearance work, prosecution, oppositions and cancellations, through to portfolio reviews and management, infringement, dispute resolution and due diligence.  Rowena works with clients of all sizes and across a wide range of sectors, including in particular food & drink, pharma, fintech, sports and music. 

Rowena is well-known and respected in the industry, having sat on various intellectual property committees including FICPI, TIPLO and INTA.  She has been ranked by MIP as one of their “Top 250 Women in IP” and by World Trademark Review as a “Gold Individual” in their WTR1000.

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