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1) Fréget Tasso de Panafieu is a Paris-based law firm specializing in competition law and regulatory issues. It was founded in 2014 by Olivier Fréget and Charlotte Tasso de Panafieu.
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• General Ethical Duties
Understanding the General Ethical Expectations in the practice of Law.
• Ethics and Technology
Understanding the General Ethical Expectations for the use of Technology.
• Ethics and Obligations in eDiscovery
Understanding the Specific Ethics and Obligations for the use of ESI* in Discovery.
• Ethics, eDiscovery, and Judicial Standards
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Mediation and Arbitration have evolved as effective and/or efficient dispute resolution mechanisms in
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• Employees and workplace regulations:
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Pre-M&A process
Parallel tracking additional capital raises
Overview of valuations and why you care
Liquidation waterfalls
Basic deal structures
Letters of Intent and Term Sheets
The diligence process
Negotiating the definitive agreements
The closing process
Post-closing issues
Common pitfalls and deal-killing mistakes
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3. • Innovative companies involved in life sciences have their
own expertise and development path;
• Some of them face the difficulties proper to start-up
companies, related to their creation and development;
• They face in the same time the intricacies of the
pharmaceutical and medical regulations applying to their
activities at any level;
• Life sciences industries need informed counsels.
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9. • Life sciences companies should be assisted by legal
advisors who:
– Understand what their own expertise and development path are;
– Can take on the legal intricacies these companies are facing;
– Can put at their disposal a validated experience already acquired in
the life sciences industry;
– Can free these companies, their managers and their employees
from the burden of legal matters; and
– Allow them to focus on their core business.
• This is what Labeolegal provides to these companies,
offering them services as outsourced general counsel.
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10. 3 – The outsourced legal counsel is a
solution to the legal challenges faced
by the life science industries
11. • These services are an innovative way to provide
legal services, for both growing and well-
established businesses;
• These services are conceived for the companies
who have the need for regular, on-going legal
support;
• These services are conceived for the companies
who do not consider to recruit a full-time in-house
lawyer. Outsourced legal counsel:
tailored legal services
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12. Who is an outsourced general counsel?
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In-house
counsel
External
lawyer
Attorney-at-law Possibly Yes Yes
Confidentiality duty by status No Yes Yes
Experience as an in-house counsel Yes Yes No
Experience in the life sciences industries Possibly Yes Possibly
Employee Yes No No
Consultant No Yes Yes
Full-time dedication to the client’s needs (i.e.
40h/week)
Yes No No
Part-time dedication to the client’s needs Possibly Yes No
Dedication to the client’s needs on a per-hour basis No Yes Yes
Work within the client’s premises Yes Yes No
Phone/email address provided by the client Yes Yes No
Daily visibility on the legal needs of the client Yes Yes No
Direct capability to anticipate the client’s legal needs Yes Yes No
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13. • The Labeolegal services are a perfect solution for
companies, letting them optimise their costs and
their organisations;
• Labeolegal provides them with a regular legal
service at a measured cost;
• Labeolegal provides them with all the benefits of
an in-house counsel coupled with all the flexibility
of a consultant.
Advantages for your organization
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14. • The company keeps its relationship with its usual
external advisors, referring to them on the topics
where these law firms can provide their most
accurate skills and expertise;
• The company avoids referring to these law firms
for day-to-day legal services, where the expertise
of these law firms can be over-dimensioned;
• It brings an optimisation of the legal costs.
Optimised use of the external law firms
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15. • The Labeolegal outsourced general counsel
solution provides all the advantages of having an
in-house lawyer, without the inconvenient of having
a full-time employee.
• Like an in-house counsel, the Labeolegal
outsourced general counsel is a key-element for
the company’s growth:
– He is a regular interlocutor of the managing team.
– He gets an intimate knowledge of the company’s legal
needs and challenges.
– He solves problems internally.
– He anticipates on the future challenges of the company.
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17. Outsourced general
counsel specific services
Scope of activities of the outsourced general
counsel
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Corporate
law
Contract
law
Employ-
ment law
Marketing
Regulato-
ry affairs
Data
privacy
Market
access/rei
mburse-
ment
Pre-
litigation
and
dispute
resolution
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18. Corporate law
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Creation of
entities, in
Switzerland and
other countries
Shareholders
agreements
Legal book-
keeping
Merger &
acquisitions
Leases
Distribution
agreements
Consulting
agreements
Intra-group
agreements
Licenses
Contract law
Outsourced general
counsel specific services
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19. Employment law Marketing
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Employment
agreements
Agreements
with
headhunters
Disciplinary
law
Prevention of
permanent
establishment
risk
Review of
marketing
documentation
Compliance
with medicines
regulations
Compliance
with
advertising
regulations
Prevention of
inappropriate
advertising or
branding risks
Outsourced general
counsel specific services
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20. Regulatory
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Relationship with
physicians
Relationship with
patient
associations
Legal support
for clinical trials
Implementqtion
of the EFPIA
regulations
Grants and
sponsorships
Identification of
the collectible
data
Declaration and
authorisation
procedures
Data transfer
EU-CH/ROW
Safe Harbor
Implementation
of the new EU
regulation
Outsourced general
counsel specific services
Data privacy
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legal function
21. Market
access/reimbursem
ents
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Assistance of the
company in its
relationship with
MoH and medicine
agencies
Assistance of the
company in its
relationship with
Welfare states and
insurance companies
Negotiations with
insurance companies
Identification of local
partners
Prevention of
conflicts
Termination
of agreements
Termination
of employees
Relationship
with damage
insurances
Interface with
external law
firms
Arbitrations,
settlements
and ADR
Pre-litigation and
dispute resolutions
Outsourced general
counsel specific services
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22. Full panel of services
Providing legal advice and outsourced general counsel
services, Labeolegal brings its clients with strategic
support in:
• Legal support for EU and Swiss pharmaceutical regulatory
procedures;
• Legal support for implantation in Switzerland and in the EU;
• Company officer;
• Data privacy officer;
• Drawing up of contracts and legal documents;
• IP coordination;
• EMEA coordination.
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Dedicated services for life
sciences companies
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23. Labeolegal is led by Olivier Guillotin
• Olivier Guillotin is a lawyer, holding the French advocate
proficiency certificate, alumnus from and former teacher at the
Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po).
• He has practised during the last fifteen years as an advocate and
as a legal counsel. As a legal counsel, he has successfully created
and managed for seven years the European legal department of a
start-up, converted shortly into a major biotech company. He has
been a key player of its growth, monitoring the legal aspects of its
development in almost thirty countries in Europe, Russia, Turkey
and Middle East.
• He has built on this fruitful experience to develop a broad
international approach, an in-depth knowledge of the European
and various national regulations applying to the life sciences
industry, and a strategic vision of the legal function within the
global activity of a company.
• Olivier Guillotin works in French, English and Spanish.
Olivier Guillotin – Experienced
as a lawyer and as an in-house
counsel
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24. LABEOLEGAL – LIFE SCIENCES EXPERIENCE – LEGAL
EXPERTISE
LIFE SCIENCES
INDUSTRIES NEED
TAILORED
SERVICES
LIFE SCIENCES
INDUSTRIES NEED
INFORMED
ADVISORS
THE OUTSOURCED
GENERAL COUNSEL
SERVICE IS MADE FOR
THE COMPANIES WHO
NEED ON-GOING LEGAL
SUPPORT
LABEOLEGAL SUPPLIES
YOU WITH AN
OUTSOURCED
GENERAL COUNSEL
WHO IS EXPERIENCED
IN THE LIFE SCIENCES
INDUSTRY
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