Associate General Counsel, Business Development and Commercial Law | Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Ltd
Andrea Ferrari
Associate General Counsel, Business Development and Commercial Law | Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Ltd
Head of global legal functions | Sandoz
Head of global legal functions | Sandoz
General counsel Europe and Canada | Takeda Pharmaceuticals
Andrea Ferrari joined Takeda seven years ago as legal counsel and during these years covered various regional and functional roles with increasing responsibilities. In February 2018, he was appointed general...
Andrea’s team is international in its focus, handling business matters across EUCAN and EM regions, requiring lawyers with diverse backgrounds and skills. Andrea was responsible for building this team from its inception, and cites the way that the role entails such ‘different matters’ and interacting with ‘various professionals’ means ‘you are never bored’. Andrea’s in-house career came like many others from working in private practice, after which ‘starting again from square one’ posed the biggest challenge in terms of getting to grips with his current role.