Mathilde is a European patent attorney, is qualified as a French patent attorney, is admitted to the Paris bar and is a UPC representative.

She is head of Greater Europe patent litigation at Sanofi, after having been a patent litigator in private practice (mostly in the pharmaceutical field), and a patent attorney in the industry (Sanofi, Nestlé). She has extensive experience in pharmaceutical and life-science patent litigation in France, at the EPO, in Europe and in Eurasia. Her expertise also comprises contractual matters, settlements, regulatory aspects and the SPC regulation.

Mathilde is lecturing on patents in various conferences, and is involved in the training of future European patent attorneys

Amalia Athanasiadou is an attorney-at-law, specialized in antitrust law and the pharmaceutical industry. She is currently working as a Lead Counsel at CSL Vifor, where she is responsible for all antitrust matters, along with tech ops and enabling functions support.

Before joining CSL Vifor, Amalia worked as an in-house legal counsel at Catalent Pharma Solutions and Tillotts Pharma AG, focusing on competition, intellectual property and commercial law. Amalia holds a PhD on antitrust law (Neuchâtel University, Switzerland), a LL.M. on Corporate and Commercial law (Maastricht University, the Netherlands) and a Bachelor of Laws (Artistotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece).

Amalia is a qualified lawyer (Greek Bar) and her doctoral thesis “Patent Settlements in the Pharmaceutical Industry under US Antitrust and EU Competition Law” is published in the International Competition Law Series of Wolters Kluwer (201😎. She has published various competition law articles and regularly presents at international antitrust and commercial law conferences.

Pablo is a Legal secretary (Référendaire) at the General Court of the European Union, in Luxembourg, where he has worked in the cabinets of Judges S. Frimodt Nielsen (2014-2016) and V. Tomljenović, June 2016.

Pablo’s work focuses on competition, State aid, banking union, access to documents, IP and pharmaceutical products.

Prior to this, Pablo was Senior Legal Counsel at Johnson & Johnson, based in Brussels, advising J&J’s consumer business in EMEA, on competition law, compliance and trade sanctions, commercial law, litigation, advertising, marketing of OTC medicines and logistics.

Pablo started his career in 2000 as associate at Skadden’s Brussels office, where he advised multinational companies on competition law, with particular focus on antitrust merger control.

Pablo holds LLM degrees from Columbia University, the College of Europe (Brugges) and the University of Kent at Canterbury.