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Zuzana Šimeková

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Work Department

Life Sciences

Position

Zuzana is Consultant and Co-Head of Europe Life Sciences groupCo. She coordinates activities relating to the organization and development of the group, its cooperation with other sector and practice groups within the firm, knowledge management, and is also involved in designing training programs for life sciences law practitioners and others. She also has experience in mentoring younger colleagues.  She has more than 15 years of experience advising clients in the pharmaceutical sector in CEE and Europe on a variety of regulatory issues, including clinical trials, market access, pricing and reimbursement, compliance, distribution and sales models, promotion and advertising of medicines and medical devices, setting up and coordinating international compliance programs, as well as representing clients before regulators. Zuzana has also extensive experience in life sciences, regulatory aspects of M&A and corporate transactions. Zuzana has also advised on a wide range of competition law issues arising out of commercial agreements, and on cases concerning abuse of a dominant position, cartels and leniency, inspections by competition authorities, and concentrations. Zuzana has experience designing antitrust compliance programs and training programs for a number of major international companies. She is a member of the Slovak Bar Association since 2006 and speaks Slovak, English and French

Career

Before joining Dentons in 2015, she worked at Allen & Overy as co-head of European life sciences regulatory group based in Paris; head of EU and Competition practice in Bratislava where she specialised in competition law and the regulatory environment, incl. in the pharmaceutical sector; Spent two years in Allen & Overy LLP’s competition team in London.

Languages

English, French and Slovak

Memberships

Slovak Bar Association

Education

Zuzana graduated as a Master of Laws from Comenius University in Bratislava. In 2005, she received an LL.M. in Competition Law at the College of Europe (Belgium) and in 2013, a Ph.D. at the Charles University in Prague (focus on Interaction of pharmaceutical regulation and Competition law).