Setterwalls

Life Sciences, Dispute resolution

Partner

As an attorney,  Helena Nilsson assists companies in the Life Sciences sector in a wide variety of issues, often with a regulatory connection.

Helena specializes in Life Sciences and thus work with legal issues in, for example, the pharmaceutical, medical technology, cosmetics and food sectors. She focuses primarily on regulatory issues, such as market access as well as marketing and distribution within the mentioned sectors and in other strictly regulated industries, but also work with commercial disputes.

Helena's daily work includes various types of permits, price and subsidy issues, substitution, data protection, collaboration between industry and health care and medical personnel, information and marketing, and various types of agreements in the area, such as research, development – and other cooperation agreements. Her work also includes commercial disputes in both court and arbitration.

For many years Helena worked with pharmaceutical and pharmacy legislation at the Swedish Government Offices and she has been deeply involved in the Government’s reform work in the pharmacy market, first as first secretary to the report that led to the deregulation of the pharmacy market, and thereafter as subject specialist at the Swedish Ministry of Health and Social Affairs.

Helena is also trained judge and associate judge of appeal in the Court of Appeal of Skåne and Blekinge. In addition, she is also a speaker at seminars and conferences in the relevant industries and has written a large number of articles in Life Sciences.

2011- Setterwalls 2001-2010 The Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, expert and enquiry secretary 2000-2001 Skåne and Blekinge Court of Appeal, associate judge 1999-2000 Malmö District Court, reporting clerk 1998-1999 Skåne and Blekinge Court of Appeal, reporting clerk 1996-1998 Kalmar District Court, law clerk.

Swedish, English

Swedish Bar Association

1996, Lunds University, LL.M.