Amalia Athanasiadou

Senior Legal Counsel at Neurimmune AG

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Amalia Athanasiadou is an attorney-at-law, specialized in antitrust law and the pharmaceutical industry. She is currently working as a senior counsel at Neurimmune AG, where she is responsible for a wide spectrum of legal questions, focusing on commercial matters, licensing deals and business development projects.

Before joining Neurimmune AG, Amalia served as a Lead Counsel Antitrust & Tech Ops at CSL Vifor where she led Vifor's defence strategy in the antitrust investigations of the European Commission (EC) and the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) against Vifor. Amalia has worked on the negotiation, design, roll-out and implementation of Vifor's commitments towards the EC and the CMA and was also responsible for all antitrust matters of CSL Vifor. In the same capacity, she led a team of two senior counsels and was responsible for the legal support of global technical operations and enabling functions.

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 and IP (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 (2018). She has published various competition law articles and regularly presents at international antitrust and commercial law conferences.