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Elisa Stefanini has an extensive experience in regulatory and compliance matters with a particular focus, in the last years, on all legal matters regarding pharmaceuticals and medical devices and other areas of Life Sciences. Her experience includes clinical trials, placing on the market, promotion and advertising of pharmaceuticals and medical devices, etc. She has also gained significant experience in matters of protection of personal data in the context of clinical trials, with particular regard to the processing of genetic data, including through biobanks. In addition, she often advises on Life Sciences regulatory matters in the context of M&A transactions. Elisa is ranked by Chambers Europe 2024, by The Legal 500 EMEA 2024, and by Who’s Who Legal in the Life Sciences 2024 and the Italy 2023 guides. She is the author of several publications in the field of biotechnology and scientific research. She is also author of numerous articles in magazines, including foreign ones, specialized in the life sciences sector. She participates in the capacity of speaker in numerous conferences and seminars in the field of Life Sciences.

Luca is a partner in Portolano Cavallo’s Life Sciences and M&A practice groups. He focuses his practice in domestic and cross border M&A, private equity, and venture capital transactions acting for investors and companies at all stages of development across the spectrum of life sciences and technology industries, including biotechnology, medical devices, pharmaceutical, and digital/information technology. Luca has been ranked as leading practitioner in the Life Sciences sector and M&A and Corporate Governance in the 2018 and 2019 Who’s Who Legal guide and he is mentioned in the Legal500 "Life Sciences" Italian ranking. In 2016 and 2017 he were on secondment at the M&A and Private Equity department of in NYC office of a leading US firm.

Albert Agustinoy also has a strong background in intellectual property-related matters, having participated as legal advisor in many commercial cases and disputes relating to technological agreements (including outsourcing and software licensing contracts, and cooperation agreements for technology development), ecommerce, personal data protection, domain names, image rights, and industrial and intellectual property. He is associations and committees liaison officer of the International Bar Association's Technology Law Committee. He is on the list of panelists for domain-name dispute resolution of the World Organization of Intellectual Property, the National Arbitration Forum and the Spanish High Council of Chambers of Commerce, Industry and Shipping. He lectures on intellectual property and new technologies on many graduate courses, including the Master in Information Technology, Social Networks and Intellectual Property at ESADE Business & Law School in Barcelona. He regularly speaks at Spanish and international conferences on online gambling, new technologies law and intellectual property. He writes legal articles in Spanish and international journals.