Mr Mauro Turrini > Bird & Bird > Milan, Italy > Lawyer Profile

Bird & Bird
VIA BORGOGNA 8
20122 MILANO
Italy

Work Department

Intellectual Property

Position

Counsel

Career

As Counsel in our Milan and Rome offices and a member of our International Life Sciences and Intellectual Property groups, Mauro has a longstanding reputation as an expert in both the regulatory and IP aspects of life sciences.

With over 15 years’ experience advising clients across life sciences, he offers legal advice on medicinal products, medical devices, food supplements, cosmetics, plant protection products and in relation to regulatory, IP issues and commercial issues. He helps  leading clients manage product classification issues, R&D and clinical trial matters, authorisation/registration/certification procedures, RDP issues, market access issues, including early access programmes, price and reimbursement issues. He also advises on pharmacovigilance/materiovigilance, compliance, including advertising and interaction with HCPs, HCO, Patient and Scientific associations, cannabis legislation and eHealth (including Telemedicines) and all the relevant commercial agreements.

Before joining Bird & Bird in 2008, he spent several years working for medical authorities including the Italian Ministry of Health, the Italian Medicines Agency (AIFA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA). In particular, during his time at the EMA, he was responsible for all legal matters relating to IP protection and innovation development.

He provided legal support to the Paediatric Committee (PDCO) and the Name Review Group (NRG) and also contributed to the Advanced Therapy Regulation implementation. He was responsible for providing a full range of pharmaceuticals advice, including on generics and data exclusivity issues, biosimilars, parallel import and parallel distribution issues, orphan drugs, SMEs and transparency issues. He was also a member of the EMA Innovation Task Force, which specialised in product classification and borderline issues.

He is fluent in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese in addition to my native Italian, in which he often speaks and writes on matters in life sciences and IP.

Languages

Italian, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese

Education

Education
Università di Bologna, Law, IP law, EU and International law

Admissions
Italian Bar Association, 2005

Lawyer Rankings

Italy > Industry focus: Healthcare and life sciences

(Rising stars)

Mauro TurriniBird & Bird

Bird & Bird provide a complete service to its clients in the healthcare and life sciences sectors. It advises on IP, regulatory, transactional corporate, EU and competition, data protection and dispute resolution matters. Massimiliano Mostardini and Giovanni Galimberti head the practice, both focusing on IP matters affecting the sector including trademarks, copyright and unfair competition. Within the practice, Antonella De Gregori utilises her specialist knowledge in the pharmaceutical sector, and Claudia Ricciardi drafts and negotiates patent/know how licences and assignment agreements. Evelina Marchesoni and Mauro Turrini are also of note. In May 2023, Elisabetta Bandera and Rita Tardiolo were made partners.