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Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (DTT) Life Sciences and Health Care (LSHC) Industry Group.

The DTT LSHC Industry Group, made up of the LSHC specialists from DTT Member Firms, is comprised of more than 4,600 professional in over 50 countries. Their understanding of the industry's challenges and their ability to quickly respond with integrated, comprehensive services put the DTT Member Firms in a unique position to help our clients. The DTT Member Firm LSHC Industry Group professionals work with their clients to help them shape the evolution of the industry. These professionals can help companies in their efforts to bring discoveries to life and improve the quality of care while they create and sustain long-term, bottom-line profitability. DTT Member Firms provide professional services to 92 percent of the life sciences and health care companies in the Fortune Global 500.

For more information about the DTT LSHC Industry Group, email dttlshc@deloitte.com or visit the website www.deloitte.com/lifesciences.

Oracle is a leading strategic software solutions provider to the health sciences industry. Oracle Health Sciences helps pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and healthcare organizations become the most successful in the world by offering the most innovative products and services that deliver the most compelling customer and shareholder value. Addressing industry requirements, Oracle provides comprehensive solutions including clinical trial management and analysis, electronic data capture, adverse event reporting and pharmacovigilance, and healthcare interoperability. Oracle partners with health sciences industry leaders - including 20 of the top 20 life sciences companies and 10 of the top 12 Fortune Global 500 healthcare organizations - to prevent and cure disease and enhance quality of life and accelerate insights for better health.

Linklaters is a leading international law firm with offices in all of the world's major financial centres, and an exceptional ability to provide market-leading specialist advice across a range of practice areas, sector groups and jurisdictions. Our international, cross-practice healthcare sector team works with many of the world's major healthcare sector companies, and with their financial advisers, on their most challenging projects. Our extensive experience in the industry means that we have a clear understanding of the constantly evolving challenges faced by businesses operating in this sector, and have significant experience of helping clients to overcome them.  Our dedication and professionalism means that we offer seamless advice to clients regardless of their geographical location.
Our work includes M&A, finance and commercial projects, both contentious and non-contentious; and clients include leading players from the pharma, biotech, private hospital, insurance and services fields, as well as the healthcare teams at investment banks, private equity firms, and sovereign wealth funds.

For further information visit: http://www.linklaters.com

 

Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT) is a $ 6 bn global provider of IT Services, Outsourced R&D, Infrastructure Outsourcing, Business Process Services, and Business Consulting. With over 25 years in the global delivery of technology services, Wipro is the world's largest third -party provider of R&D services and the world's first PCMM and CMMi level company. Wipro is the first to perfect a unique quality methodology, the Wipro Way - a combination of Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, Kaizen and CMM - to provide unmatched business value and predictability to our clients.
Wipro makes an ideal partner for organizations looking at transformational IT solutions because of its core capabilities, great human resources, commitment to quality and the global infrastructure to deliver a wide range of technology and business consulting solutions and services, 24/7. Wipro enables business results by being a "transformation catalyst". It offers integrated portfolio of services to its clients in the areas of Consulting, System Integration and Outsourcing for key-industry verticals.
Wipro is rated by industry analysts as a leader in global package implementation projects, CRM services, and Infrastructure Management among offshore firms, Wipro has won global recognition and awards for innovation and outsourcing excellence. We currently serve 4 out of the top 5 Pharmaceutical companies in various capacities and have developed alliances with global majors and niche players to offer compelling business propositions for the customers. For more information, please visit Wipro's website at www.wipro.com/industries/pharmaceutical-life-sciences/index.htm

Cognizant is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services with a single-minded passion to dedicate our global technology and innovation know-how, our industry expertise and worldwide resources to working together with clients to make their businesses stronger. With over 50 global delivery centers and 95,600 employees as of September 30, 2010, we combine a unique global delivery model with a distinct culture of customer satisfaction. A member of the NASDAQ-100 Index and S&P 500 Index, Cognizant is a Forbes Global 2000 company and a member of the Fortune 1000 and is ranked among the top information technology companies in BusinessWeek's Hot Growth and Top 50 Performers listings.

Our Life Sciences and Healthcare Business contributes over 25.5% of global revenues and Cognizant has as clients 27 of the top 30 Global Pharma companies, 8 of top 10 U.S. Healthcare plans, 9 of top 10 Biotech companies and 2 of top 5 Medical Device companies.