Robert Vidal
Partner, Competition & Antitrust
Bristows
Michael Pears
Partner
Potter Clarkson
Louise Jonshammar
Partner, Attorney at Law
AWA
Veronika Hughes-Bednar
VP, Global Head of Legal Transactions
Astellas Pharma
Polyxeni Kyriopoulou
Head of Legal
Elpen Pharmaceuticals
Lena Moran-Adams
Group General Counsel
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Jennifer Ulbrich
Senior Legal Counsel
Roche
David Lawless
Senior Director, Assistant General Counsel
Regeneron
Daphné Derouane
Associate General Patent Counsel
UCB
Daphné DEROUANE is a qualified European Patent Attorney and holds a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from UCLouvain in Belgium. She has over 25 years of experience as in-house patent counsel in industry. Currently, she serves as Associate General Patent Counsel at UCB Biopharma in Belgium, where she leads the IP support for the Research Organization.
Her expertise encompasses defining the overall IP strategy of UCB’s early-stage assets and technologies, patent drafting & prosecution, providing freedom-to-operate opinions, and the negotiation of a variety of agreements. She also closely monitors external IP developments which are relevant to the pharmaceutical industry to ensure the UCB IP strategies remain fit-for-purpose.
Cornelia Keller
VP & General Counsel
Merz Therapeutics