Joanna Krakowiak

Joanna Krakowiak heads the Life Sciences & Healthcare practice. She advises clients from regulated industries, particularly pharmaceuticals, biotech, medical devices, and foods, in regulatory matters and comprehensive implementation of projects in Poland.

She has many years of wide-ranging experience in matters involving marketing authorisation procedures, labelling, and models for sale and distribution of products. She carries out projects involving multi-site clinical studies in commercial and non-commercial models, financed from public funds, including studies involving American biotech firms. She provides comprehensive legal advice on strategies for communications with consumers, patients, and physicians. She provides opinions on advertising campaigns for products, including medicinal products and medical devices, and advises on how to mitigate risks of challenges to marketing messages by competitors, consumers, or market regulators.

Food law is a special area of her practice, as she is the only person from Poland who is a member of the council of the European Food Law Association. She applies this experience in her work every day for Polish and foreign clients, assisting them in complex matters involving such issues as classification, safety and labelling of products, and in proceedings before regulators and the administrative courts.

She is involved in key transactions carried out by the law firm and has significant experience in regulatory aspects of M&A, including healthcare regulations.