English / French
Commercial - Management and Dispute Resolution - Product liability Personal injury
Delphine Lapillonne, Counsel, assists industrial clients, particularly in highly regulated sectors, in complex, international litigation before all types of juris-dictions.
She has developed significant experience in mass and multi-jurisdictional product liability litigation, and defends pharmaceutical companies in class actions.
She has gained considerable experience in serial compensation litigation relating to asbestos (occupational diseases, anxiety disorders).
She also intervenes frequently in diverse problematics for major actors of the phytosanitary industry.
She regularly takes part in forward-looking discussions on changes to the French legislative system concerning issues of interest to the pharmaceutical sector.
Major French player in the healthcare sector:
Representing a pharmaceutical company in a serial multi-jurisdictional litigation and the first healthcare class action in France
Pharmaceutical company of international scale:
Defending a client in an international product liability litigation: managing and coordinating all proceedings in several countries to ensure the implementation of a global defence strategy.
Healthcare industry association:
Regular advice on French law reforms and the implementation of European directives in the context of draft legislation in areas relating to the healthcare sector (civil liability, representative and class actions, redress schemes, artificial intelligence).
COVID-19: French Administrative Supreme Court rulings on interim measures challenging government policies
Delphine Lapillonne co-authored with Armand Aviges and Cécile Panien-Ferouelle
in: Lexology, April 2020
French Administrative Supreme Court cancels Ministry of Health decision on assessment of public health interests
Delphine Lapillonne co-authored with Armand Aviges
in: Lexology, November 2019
