Cristiana Spontoni is co-leader of the Firm's Health Care & Life Sciences Practice. She is internationally recognized as a leader in life sciences, including biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, food and cosmetics, as well as in general EU product and industries regulation. She is also actively involved in the shaping and interpretation of EU legislation affecting many different regulated industries and has successfully argued a number of important cases before the Court of Justice of the European Union.
Cristiana frequently coordinates large international assignments and provides comprehensive one-stop-shop solutions for cross-border regulatory issues affecting clients' operations across multiple jurisdictions. Cristiana advises clients from the pre-market phase, including clinical trials, to post-market issues, including product liability, marketing/advertising, distribution, and compliance (including sector-specific antibribery and data privacy).
Cristiana handles safety and compliance issues for a large variety of clients, both in the life sciences and other sectors, including with regard to crisis management (e.g., recalls), regulatory enforcement, and media attacks, as well as in marketing/advertising/claims and associated substantiation matters.
Cristiana frequently speaks at and chairs major international conferences. She is recognized in the leading lawyer directories, including Chambers, Legal 500, Best Lawyers, and International Who's Who, and has received several important awards, including "Life Sciences Lawyer of the Year" (Corporate LiveWire 2018 Global Awards) and the ILO Client Choice Award for EU-wide Healthcare & Life Sciences. She has been named a "Star" by LMG Life Sciences and Acritas.
"A real star" and "one of the best."The Legal 500
- Collegio Europeo di Parma (LL.M. with distinction 1995); Universita degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" (Law Degree summa cum laude 1994)
- Belgium (EU List) and Italy
- Civil Servant, European Commission, Brussels (1996-1997); Trainee, European Council of Ministers (1996); Trainee, Italian Attorney General's Office (Avvocatura Generale dello Stato) (1995-1996)
Chambers: "excellent"; "keen business sense"; "smart, very precise, well regarded and well connected"; "understands us"; "really goes above and beyond"; "covers everything we need"; "proactive and responsive"
The Legal 500: "exceptional lawyer with very good knowledge about industry regulation and practice, very easy to work with and extremely efficient"
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