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EU Life Sciences
Alison Brown is a partner in the firm's London office. She focuses her practice on product liability litigation and product safety matters. She also handles complex commercial and public law litigation in the UK and European courts. Alison handles both unitary claims and group actions and coordinates litigation throughout the UK and Europe. For more than 20 years, she has represented defendants in some of the major group actions brought in the UK.
Alison also advises on all aspects of regulatory compliance, including investigations and enforcement actions by UK regulatory agencies and defends companies and individuals against criminal prosecutions for alleged breach of regulatory requirements. She handles internal investigations in a wide range of areas including in relation to economic crimes.
EU Life Sciences Representative Matters
Regulatory
- Part of a US/European team representing a Fortune 500 company in connection with an FCPA investigation involving the company's activities in over fifteen countries in Europe, the Middle East, and Central America and the company's self-reporting and ongoing cooperation with various agencies in the US and UK. Assisted various pharmaceutical companies in the context of regulatory investigations. Cases include criminal investigations relating to reporting obligations and the promotion/ advertising of medicinal products.
Commercial Litigation
- The Queen (on the application of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry) v. Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency [2010] EUECJ C-62/09 - judicial review proceedings and reference to the European Court of Justice in Case C-62/09.
- Case C-368/96, R v Licensing Authority ex p. Generics[1998] ECR I 7967.
Product Liability
- Fetal Anticonvulsant Group Litigation (group litigation brought on behalf of children of mothers with epilepsy who alleged that they had sustained congenital abnormalities as a result of exposure to anti-epileptic medication during pregnancy: 2011).
- The Oral Contraceptive Group Litigation, XYZ & Others v. Schering Health Care Limited & Others [2002] EWHC 1420 (QB) (product liability group action arising from increased risk of thrombotic events allegedly associated with third generation combined oral contraceptives).
Regulatory
- Part of a US/European team representing a Fortune 500 company in connection with an FCPA investigation involving the company's activities in over fifteen countries in Europe, the Middle East, and Central America and the company's self-reporting and ongoing cooperation with various agencies in the US and UK. Assisted various pharmaceutical companies in the context of regulatory investigations. Cases include criminal investigations relating to reporting obligations and the promotion/ advertising of medicinal products.
Commercial Litigation
- The Queen (on the application of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry) v. Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency [2010] EUECJ C-62/09 - judicial review proceedings and reference to the European Court of Justice in Case C-62/09.
- Case C-368/96, R v Licensing Authority ex p. Generics[1998] ECR I 7967.
Product Liability
- Fetal Anticonvulsant Group Litigation (group litigation brought on behalf of children of mothers with epilepsy who alleged that they had sustained congenital abnormalities as a result of exposure to anti-epileptic medication during pregnancy: 2011).
- The Oral Contraceptive Group Litigation, XYZ & Others v. Schering Health Care Limited & Others [2002] EWHC 1420 (QB) (product liability group action arising from increased risk of thrombotic events allegedly associated with third generation combined oral contraceptives).
Chambers UK: A Client's Guide to the UK Legal Profession 2013 - Recommended for Product Liability: Mainly Defendant
Chambers UK: A Client's Guide to the UK Legal Profession 2013 - Top Ranked for Life Sciences: Product Liability
Chambers UK: A Client's Guide to the UK Legal Profession 2013 - Top Ranked for Life Sciences: Regulatory
London Partner Alison Brown Wins Best in Product Liability, Europe Women in Business Law Awards 2012
PLC Which lawyer? 2012 - Recommended for Life Sciences: Product Liability
Chambers UK: A Client's Guide to the UK Legal Profession 2012 for Life Sciences: Product Liability, Life Sciences: Regulatory, and Product Liability: Mainly Defendant
The International Who's Who of Product Liability Defense Lawyers 2011
PLC Which lawyer? Yearbook 2011 - Recommended for Life Sciences: Product Liability
The Legal 500 UK 2011 for Insurance - Product Liability: Defendant
The Legal 500 UK 2011 for TMT: Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology
Legal Media Group's Guide to the World's Leading Product Liability Lawyers 2010
The Legal 500 UK for Product Liability
Professional Activity
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Member, Product Liability Forum, British Institute of International Comparative Law
Alison Brown and Ian Dodds-Smith "EU Developments in Relation to Cross-border Actions for Collective Redress" (PDF: 308 kB) Chapter 1 - 2013 edition of The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Class & Group Actions; published by Global Legal Group Ltd, London. www.iclg.co.uk Online. November 1, 2012
Alison Brown and Ian Dodds-Smith "A practical cross-border insight into class and group actions work" (PDF: 339 kB) Chapter 13 - 2013 edition of The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Class & Group Actions; published by Global Legal Group Ltd, London. www.iclg.co.uk Online. November 1, 2012
Alison Brown and Jacqueline Mulryne "Chandler v Cape clarifies duty of care owed by parent companies" (PDF: 169 kB) International Law Office's Product Liability Newsletter, October 18, 2012 and also ran in Product Liability Law360 and Appellate Law360, November 2012
Alison Brown and Ian Dodds-Smith "The International Comparative Legal Guide to - Product Liability 2012" (PDF: 267 kB) Chapter 1, 2012
Alison Brown "Product liability lessons from the Atomic Veterans litigation" (PDF: 155 kB) International Law Office's Product Liability Newsletter 05 Apr. (2012)
Ian Dodds-Smith and Alison Brown "Recent Developments in European Product Liability" (PDF: 300 kB) The International Comparative Legal Guide to Product Liability (London: Global Legal Group Limited) 2011
Alison Brown "EU Developments in Relation to Cross-Border Actions for Collective Redress" (PDF: 183 kB) The International Comparative Legal Guide to Class and Group Actions (London: Global Legal Group Limited) 2011
Ian Dodds-Smith and Alison Brown "England & Wales" (PDF: 196 kB) The International Comparative Legal Guide to Class and Group Actions (London: Global Legal Group Limited) 2011
"More Cost-Efficient Civil Litigation In England & Wales" (PDF: 777 kB) Mar 2013
"UK Government Issues Guidance on the Bribery Act" (PDF: 410 kB) Mar 2011
"UK Government Announces Timing For Implementation of the Bribery Act 2010" (PDF: 414 kB) Aug 2010
"UK Bribery Act 2010: An In-Depth Analysis" (PDF: 320 kB) May 2010
"Parallel Trade: Update - Pharmaceuticals" (PDF: 1.16 MB) Apr 2003