Zoe Kimberley

Area Counsel, Europe

AbbVie

Zoe is a Life Sciences law specialist with over 20 years’ experience in private practice and industry. She is the Area Counsel for Europe. Before this Zoe was the Legal Director for AbbVie UK & Ireland and then led the AbbVie legal team in Europe South and Central Eastern Europe. Zoe is a litigator by background and has specialized in product liability and representative/class actions since qualification in London with DAC Beachcroft. 

Zoe joined AbbVie (then Abbott) in 2011 after 5 years at Clayton Utz in Sydney. Here she specialized in product liability litigation, class actions and pharma regulatory law. In Australia, Zoe worked on numerous high-profile matters including the VIOXX litigation for Merck/MSD. 

Zoe holds an LLB from University College London. She is admitted to practice in England & Wales and New South Wales, Australia.  

Sophie Pelé

Partner

Dechert

Sophie Pelé, a partner in Dechert's Paris office, advises in life sciences regulatory matters. She also covers foreign investment control in international transactions and strategic public law litigation.

Ranked among the leading partners in Pharma/Life Sciences: Regulatory by Chambers France 2026, recognized as a “Next Generation Partner” in France by The Legal 500 EMEA 2026 in Healthcare & Life Sciences, as well as among the best lawyers in Life Sciences by Who’s Who Legal 2025, Sophie Pelé has substantial experience in clinical trial, development, manufacturing and promotion agreements, licensing and distribution schemes, market access transparency, lifecycle management, and hospital-related public procurement.

Eleonore Jackson

Senior Sales Consultant

Polixis SA

Eleonore is a Senior Sales Executive at Polixis - leading the firm’s business development efforts in Zürich and across the wider DACH region. She brings more than a decade of experience in integrity due diligence, regulatory compliance and financial crime risk advisory. Over the course of her career, she has worked closely with banks, private equity firms, wealth managers and multinational corporates on pre-transactional investigations, third-party risk assessments and market entry matters.

Prior to joining Polixis, Eleonore was a Partner at Wallbrook, the integrity due diligence firm she co-founded in 2018, where she led the Swiss business from Zürich for six years. Earlier in her career, she was part of the Due Diligence and Strategic Research division at Stroz Friedberg, helping establish the firm’s due diligence practice in Switzerland after joining the team in London.

Her experience includes supporting a New York Department of Financial Services-mandated monitorship of a global banking group, with a focus on anti-money laundering and sanctions compliance, including the review of compliance technology and monitoring systems. She began her career in London-based risk consultancies conducting investigative research, due diligence and asset tracing assignments, as well as supporting business intelligence work across sub-Saharan Africa.

Eleonore holds a Bachelor’s degree in History and Italian from the University of Edinburgh and a Master’s degree in Sub-Saharan African Politics from the SOAS University of London.