Organised by the Antitrust, In-house Counsel and Healthcare and Life Sciences Commissions
Session #4
Tuesday, 23 August
14:00 – 15:15
In-house and external lawyers from Asia, US, EU will give some insights and provide practical guidelines.
The session will provide a brief overview of regulatory measures taken by Asian countries, EU and USA in relation to digital healthcare advice during the past 3 years.
These measures will be analysed from a competition law perspective, with regard to the use of shared platforms, openness to third parties and abuse of dominant positions particularly via electronic services.
Dr. Edvinas Meškys is an expert with experience in business and regulatory law, including the drafting of various services agreements, preparing law drafts in energy, the bioethics and pharmacy sphere and preparing other legal documents. Edvinas also has long-standing experience in a wide range of complex projects including food, beverages and tobacco, insurance, real estate, advertising and entertainment, IT and other international, EU and domestic trade law as well as competition law spheres. For the past 6 years, he has worked as an external and also internal lawyer at one of the biggest pharma companies in the world.
Kathy XU graduated from Shanghai University with a Master’s Degree of Law, is admitted to the Shanghai Bar Association. She is proficient in Chinese and English. Since 2017, she has been practicing law. In the past five years, she provided legal services in corporate law, arbitration and litigation, mergers and acquisitions and contract law to companies (mainly foreign invested companies or foreign, especially Swiss and German, companies) in the pharmaceutical and medical industry, machine and engineering / software industry.
Hwee Ping CHUA is the Vice President, International Legal & Compliance of MSD and supports the company’s ex-U.S. human health commercial operations across more than 100 countries, as well as the ex-U.S. activities of research & development, manufacturing, and Animal Health divisions. She oversees a team of approximately 130 Legal & Compliance professionals across 4 regions (namely Europe/Canada, Asia Pacific, Latin America and Eastern Europe Middle East & Africa) and 2 major markets (namely China and Japan).
Prior to joining MSD, she was the Regional Counsel of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (“BMS”) (between 2002 and 2007), based in Singapore supporting Asia Pacific & China markets. She was the first legal counsel appointed by BMS in the region. Before going in-house, Hwee Ping was a corporate and commercial litigator in private practice in Singapore.
Hwee Ping has Master of Law degrees from Nottingham Trent University and the University of Melbourne, and a Bachelor of Law (Hons) degree from National University of Singapore. She is admitted to practice law in Singapore and in the State of New York. She was recently awarded the 2021 Chief Legal Office Award (Global MNC category) from the Singapore Corporate Counsel Association.
Zhicheng Pan has graduated from Law School, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and obtained a Ph.D. in Law. He has also studied in Law School, Boston University for one year. He has been selected into State Justice Bureau’s Foreign Issue Related Lawyer Talent Pool. His practice areas include competition and antimonopoly, IP and international commercial litigation and arbitration. He has assisted a number of large size enterprises to handle pre-merger filing for their merger & acquisition projects or joint venture establishment projects, and has assisted clients in automobile, medical equipment, eyewear, paper manufacturing and other industries to set up antimonopoly compliance systems, and has assisted clients in chemical, alcohol, port and other industries to deal with antimonopoly administrative investigations or different types of antimonopoly civil lawsuits.
Martin specialises in advising clients in the life sciences industry on the full range of matters including regulatory, advertising, competition and unfair competition law, commercial law, dispute resolution and public procurement; Martin is frequently invited to speak at conferences and has published numerous articles in legal and trade journals.
He worked at international law firms Baker & McKenzie and Squire Sanders & Dempsey.
Martin has a law degree from Charles University in Prague and studied at l’Université libre de Bruxelles and King’s College London
Martin advises clients in English and Czech.
Martin is a member of the Czech Advocacy Bar.
Aleksandra advises clients on various aspects of Polish and EU competition law, including anti-competitive agreements, information exchange, abuse of a dominant position, merger control, distribution systems and compliance programmes. She has extensive experience in representing entrepreneurs before the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection.
She represents clients in cases relating to unfair competition, consumer protection, and regulation issues in the telecommunications market.
Supports clients in the so-called congestion proceedings, including representing entrepreneurs in proceedings before the President of UOKiK and helping to ensure compliance of current activities with the provisions on payment deadlines. She represents clients in legal proceedings related to damages for breach of competition law (private enforcement).
Her experience includes advising in relation to the Act on the Prevention of Unfair Use of a Contract Advantage in the Trading of Agricultural and Food Products, she works with leading retail chains and producers of food products daily.
She also assists with developing and implementing dedicated compliance programmes and has served as compliance officer in sector-specific associations operating in sensitive markets.
Aleksandra has advised on numerous broadband infrastructure projects, representing both contracting authorities and contractors at all stages of project implementation. She has provided advice to major telecommunications and e-commerce businesses.
