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Product Liability / Personal injury - Intellectual Property - Management and Dispute Resolution

Partner

Armand Aviges advises, assists, and represents both French and international industrial players, particularly in the pharmaceutical sector, in product liability matters before various jurisdictions (civil, administrative, and criminal). He notably handles complex serial claims and has developed a strong expertise in healthcare class actions and notably represents a leading pharmaceutical group in the first two pharmaceutical class actions in France. His practice has a decidedly international bent, as he manages and coordinates mass disputes on an international level.

Armand Aviges is particularly involved in the management of mass litigation in the context of ad hoc compensation schemes set up by the State and in all related litigation procedures.

Armand Aviges is also regularly consulted in the context of reflexions and proposals concerning draft bills or the modification of the French legal system.

He assists pharmaceutical industries in all matters relating to intellectual property law (with particular focus on fields such as patents, trademarks, know-how and employee’s invention) and has developed a significant practice in the field of customs legislation related to falsified/counterfeit medicinal products.

He also intervenes frequently in diverse problematics for major actors of the phytosanitary industry.

French / English / Italian

Graduate from the University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne), Paris II (Pantheon-Assas) and the University of “La Sapienza” (Rome).