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PHARMACEUTICAL AND MEDICAL DEVICES LAW

The lawyer, Stefanos Economou is the author of many legal articles and books on pharmaceutical law.

Among others, he has written an article on the unconstitutionality of the clawback, published in the legal journal Theory and Practice of Administrative Law of the Law Library, the only specialized pharmaceutical law book on the promotion of medicines recently published by the Law Library entitled: Legal and Ethical Compliance in Pharmaceutical Promotion, the book in English entitled Advertising Medicinal Products in the EU from a Legal and Compliance Perspective, Analysis and Interpretation of the EU Directives and the Jurisprudence of the ECJ, and an article on Corporate Compliance Programs – Compliance.

Attorney Stefanos Economou, worked for 21 years as a legal advisor with the pharmaceutical industry Boehringer Ingelheim Hellas SA, and was both a member of the Board of Directors of the company ( Secretary General ) and Compliance Officer, responsible for the company’s compliance with the laws and codes of ethics and conduct. Today, as an attorney specializing in medical and pharmaceutical law, he provides his independent legal services both to the aforementioned company and to a multitude of other pharmaceutical companies, pharmacies and medical device companies such as the multinational company Edwards Lifesciences.

The field of pharmaceutical law is highly specialized and attorney Stefanos Economou combines theoretical training with many years of experience in pharmaceutical legal issues. The lawyers of our firm have handled many pharmaceutical law cases, such as clawback and rebate cases with applications for annulment before the Council of State, hospital debts, drug pricing issues before the Price Commission and the Ministry, defending against fines imposed by the Greek Food and Drug Administration for drug advertisements, as well as many cases before the disciplinary bodies of the SFEE, and lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies for product liability, and disputes over trademarks/trademarks of drugs.

As medical and pharmaceutical law attorneys, we have dealt with various pharmaceutical law matters such as a plethora of contracts related to pharmaceutical and medical devices such as manufacturing agreements, Co-promotion and Co-marketing agreements , Licensing Agreements, Leased field force agreements , sponsorship agreements and many others.

Finally, we have represented and advised medical device companies – medical devices – in many pharmaceutical law matters, in particular in tenders for the supply of medical devices by hospitals, as well as by ASP and EKAPY, both during the preparation of the offer and the collection of supporting documents and subsequently with appeals before the Authorities and applications for annulment and suspension before the Administrative Court of Appeal and the Council of State.

The medical and pharmaceutical law attorneys of our firm combine the experience and knowledge of a three-generation family legal tradition in pharmaceutical law and in the law of pharmaceutical and medical device companies in general, with a strong dynamism and provide a wide range of legal services to a multitude of personsfrom multinational giants to small companies and individuals in large or small cases always with the same professionalism and efficiency.