About

Matteo Missaglia impressively set up the legal division of Helsinn many years ago with initially just one assistant. Now the legal department provides full in-house legal support to all business operations and to the top of the management group at a worldwide level on all legal issues. Matteo says his in-house team utilises its skills on a number of levels, ‘including through an established network of some of the best international law firms’. Matteo has transformed the legal structure that now consists of an international team and different departments with a high degree of specialisation. Speaking of the most rewarding part of his job he says it is, ‘working in an international environment, and being able to contribute to define the objective and strategies of the group and giving the general counsel a role that goes beyond the purely legal advice’. His outstanding and extensive legal work includes many large-scale cases, including being praised for his successful arbitration at the ICC in Paris. Additionally, he managed legal activities supporting successful referral procedure for one of their products at EMA (European Medicine Agency). He went on to successfully completing various settlement agreements with a multinational group.