Singapore: Bionest Partners and Scisive Consulting have merged to form a global strategy and management consulting firms for the life science industries. The merged companies will operate under the name of Bionest Partners with offices in New York, Paris, London and San Diego, with presence in Munich and Tokyo.

Bionest Partners will be intensely responsive to, and highly qualified for, the planning needs of a new generation of medical business leaders and investors. The firm will deal with the new demands of the medical marketplace and also augment its intellectual capital and expand its geographic coverage.

Bionest Partners' new senior management team will be Mr Alain J Gilbert and Mr Bob J Easton, as co-chair, together with partners Dr Mary Koto, Ms Catharine Staughton, Mr Olivier Lesueur and Dr Sean Hu.