Solicitor
(England and Wales)
(Republic of Ireland, non-practising)
Contact Nils
LDMH Partners GmbH
Hannover Docks
Eichenbrink 5, 30453 Hannover
Germany
E-Mail: nils.hoppe@ldmh.eu
LinkedIn: Profile
Tel. (UK): +44 (0)1904 900 915
Tel. (DE): +49 (0)511 5154 622 0
Nils is a solicitor and the partner lead on regulatory and compliance practice.
Nils is also the professor of law and ethics in the life sciences at the University of Hannover, and Dean of Research. After graduating in law, with a specialisation in medical law and human rights law, Nils first worked in insurance litigation at Browne Jacobson LLP, and later as in-house counsel at a university hospital.
He has been an ethics expert to the European Commission since 2008, advises various governments on novel health technologies and governance frameworks, and served on the UK Biobank Ethics and Governance Council from 2014-2018. Nils has advised biobanks, large-scale research clusters, and clinical trials with a particular focus on research governance, consent aspects, and cross-border issues. He also provides advice on ethical issues in biomedical research and innovation, and has assisted in tricky applications to research ethics committees, animal welfare committees, and institutional review boards.
Nils took his undergraduate degree (LL.B.) at Nottingham Law School, and a certificate in European technology and business law from Erlangen. He was awarded a doctorate in law, with a thesis on biotechnology law (magna cum laude), from Hannover Law School. He also holds a qualification in international arbitration and originally trained as a barrister (but was not called to the Bar). He was a consultant lawyer at Hill Dickinson LLP until he founded LDMH with James.
Nils has over 50 publications in the fields of ethics and law in the life sciences. Here is a selection of the most recent / relevant publications: