
Montserrat Llopart
Biography
Montserrat has extensive experience in pharmaceutical and health law, as well as in compliance, contract law, licensing, competition law and acquisitions in the pharmaceutical sector. She is the coordinator of the healthcare practice in the Barcelona office.
She assists healthcare companies throughout the life cycle of healthcare products (drugs, IVD and medical devices, combination products, cosmetics and food supplements), from R&D to commercialization and more specifically in the areas of clinical trials (agreements, regulatory procedures, processing of personal data), market access (pricing and reimbursement), products and companies regulations (MA/CE-marking, vigilances, required licenses, product classification, labelling), commercial relations between healthcare industries (distribution, (co)promotion, manufacturing, supply, licensing, partnership agreements), relations with healthcare professionals and/or patients including compliance (anti-gift and transparency laws); communication and advertising, e-health (connected devices, telemedicine, hosting of health data) and product liability. Her practice encompasses both advisory and litigation matters.
She also has considerable experience in the drafting of codes of professional ethics and conducting compliance audits, and advising on advertising and promotion of medicines and medical devices, including via the internet, online advertising and social media. Montserrat advises on a wide range of agreements related to the pharmaceutical industry, such as license and distribution agreements, clinical trial agreements, and supply and manufacturing agreements.
Representative Legal Matters
- Acted for many renowned corporations in the pharmaceutical and health sector in sectorial regulatory, compliance and commercial issues, as well as competition law, governmental contracts, acquisitions and general commercial matters.
- Acted for a life sciences companies regarding a public procurement procedure on the delivery of services and supplying of pacemakers (medical devices) and has a strong practice on advising pharmaceutical companies on public procurement issues regarding medicinal products and medical devices.
Professional Honors
- Ranked in Chambers Europe: Band 1. Life Sciences: Regulatory
- Ranked in Legal 500 EMEA: Tier 2 Healthcare and Life Sciences
- Awarded "Best Lawyer” in Healthcare law since 2012; Biotechnology law since 2013, Corporate and M&A law since 2019, and Pharmaceutical law since 2022, by the American group Best Lawyers.
- Awarded "Compliance lawyer of the year” in 2022, 2024 and 2025 in Spain by the American group Best Lawyers.
- Awarded "Pharmaceutical lawyer of the year” in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 in Spain by the American group Best Lawyers.
- Awarded "Health Care Law lawyer of the year” in 2015, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 in Spain by the American group Best Lawyers.
- Awarded "Biotechnology lawyer of the year” in 2019 in Spain by the American group Best Lawyers.
- Named by Iberian Lawyers as one of the most inspirational female lawyers in 2018 and 2019 in Spain and Portugal (InspiraLaw Top 50 Women List).
- PLC Which Lawyer - Life Sciences - Recommended lawyer since 2008
Professional Associations and Memberships
- Barcelona Bar Association (1992)
- Head Barcelona office Healthcare Practice Group, Baker McKenzie
- Head Barcelona office International Commerce & Trade Practice Group, Baker McKenzie
Admissions
- Barcelona~Spain (1992)
Education
- Autonomous University of Barcelona (Political Science) (1996)
- Université de Droit, Strasbourg (Diploma in Advanced Studies in International Law) (1990)
- Université de Droit, Strasbourg (Diploma in Advanced Studies in Community Law) (1989)
- University of Barcelona (Law Degree) (1988)
Languages
- Catalan
- English
- French
- Spanish