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Featured award

Legal 500 Europe, Middle East and Africa, 2026

Industry focus: healthcare and life sciences - ‘They are exceptional lawyers in terms of their legal expertise, and their ability to work effectively and productively in larger teams, and interact effectively and commercially with clients. A great team to work with.’ ‘A highly motivated team which can do in-depth research into topics really quickly, understands clients' requests fast and provides a lot of experience as well.’

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Evelyne heads the commercial and competition law department in France, which supports clients with their commercial and distribution issues, as well as competition, EU and trade matters. She also heads our Life Sciences sector group in France. Evelyne’s expertise is on contract law, competition law, product liability issues, and regulatory and compliance matters. Whether you're a start up or a major global corporation, Evelyne will support you at an international level.

Evelyne drafts and analyses all types of commercial agreements (R&D, license, distribution, agency, service agreements etc.). As a specialist in European and competition law, she will ensure you comply with competition rules. In the Life Sciences sector, Evelyne has developed an expertise on regulatory and compliance issues for the medical industry (clinical trials, market access, relationships between the industry and medical practitioners). Evelyne handles settlements and litigation relating to unfair competition, anti-competitive practices, contract termination and product liability. She will represent you before civil and commercial courts, as well as before competition authorities at the national and European levels. Evelyne has lectured at the University Paris (Panthéon Assas) and at the Institute of Political Studies of Paris (Sciences Po) for several years.

Expertise

Services and Groups

Commercial & consumer contracts
Competition, EU & trade
Corporate crime & compliance
Disputes & investigations
Compliance
Product liability & product safety
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Consumer & retail
Business & professional services
Life sciences & healthcare
Manufacturing & industrials
Chemicals
Medical devices
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CV

Since 2008 Partner and Head of the Commercial, Competition and Distribution group and Life Sciences sector group, Taylor Wessing, Paris
2003 - 2008 Counsel, Jones Day
2002 Senior Associate, Lovells
1992 - 2001 Counsel, Siméon & Associés
1989 - 1990 Associate, Hyman Phelps & McNamara HPM
1992 Admitted to the Bar, Paris
2014 Admitted to the Bar, Brussels
1992 Doctorate in law, Paris
1989 Master of laws in Common Law Studies, Georgetown University Law Center
1987 Post-graduate degree in International Trade Law, Paris
1986 Post-graduate degree in European Community Law, Paris
1985 Graduate degree International and European Law, Paris

Career

Since 2008 Partner and Head of the Commercial, Competition and Distribution group and Life Sciences sector group, Taylor Wessing, Paris
2003 - 2008 Counsel, Jones Day
2002 Senior Associate, Lovells
1992 - 2001 Counsel, Siméon & Associés
1989 - 1990 Associate, Hyman Phelps & McNamara HPM

Education

1992 Admitted to the Bar, Paris
2014 Admitted to the Bar, Brussels
1992 Doctorate in law, Paris
1989 Master of laws in Common Law Studies, Georgetown University Law Center
1987 Post-graduate degree in International Trade Law, Paris
1986 Post-graduate degree in European Community Law, Paris
1985 Graduate degree International and European Law, Paris

Publications

Evelyne regularly publishes articles in the field of competition, regulatory and distribution law.
Concentrations : Quel régime pour les extensions dâ entreprises communes coopératives?, Journal des Sociétés, n° 70, November 2009
Concentrations et ententes entre laboratoires de princeps et fabricants de gĂŠnĂŠriques, Fusions et Acquisitions, November 18, 2009
Commercialisation of Health Care: Jurisdictional Comparisons, Thomson Reuters, 2020
Merger Control in France & Quarterly Developments, Essential Merger Control Quarterly (EEI) 1997-2000
Antitrust Law and Trade Regulation “France in Antitrust Laws and Trade Regulation", Vol. 9, Ch. 205, Lexis Publishing, 2000
Pratiques Restrictives de Concurrence in RĂŠpertoire de Droit International, EncyclopĂŠdie Dalloz, 1999
ExtraterritorialitĂŠ du droit de la concurrence aux Etats-Unis et dans la CommunautĂŠ EuropĂŠenne, Editions L.G.D.J. - Collection de droit international et communautaire,1994
De la coopération à l’atteinte à la concurrence : le pas à ne pas franchir, Le Moniteur, 17 juin 2011
Confirmation et modernisation des règles de concurrence applicables aux accords de distribution, Journal des SociÊtÊs, n° 76, May 2010
Going Vertical, Analysis: EU Consultation, The European Lawyer, February 2010

Memberships & Associations

University Paris (PanthĂŠon Assas), Institute of Political Studies of Paris, Lecturer
Ecole SupĂŠrieure de Commerce of Clermont Ferrand, Lecturer

Additional languages

English

Awards

Legal 500 Europe, Middle East and Africa, 2026

Featured

Industry focus: healthcare and life sciences - ‘They are exceptional lawyers in terms of their legal expertise, and their ability to work effectively and productively in larger teams, and interact effectively and commercially with clients. A great team to work with.’ ‘A highly motivated team which can do in-depth research into topics really quickly, understands clients' requests fast and provides a lot of experience as well.’

Chambers & Partners France 2026

Pharma/Life Sciences: Regulatory (Individual ranking) - "Evelyne understood our need and captured this in the responses she delivered. She was able to provide output taking into account other needs not originally considered in our request." "She has recognised expertise in her field." "She consistently delivers high quality advice and demonstrates a solid understanding of both the legal and commercial dimensions of our matters. Her communication is clear and timely."

Legal 500 Europe, Middle East and Africa, 2024

EU Competition and distribution

Legal 500 Europe, Middle East and Africa 2019

Recommended lawyer - Compliance (France)

Recommended lawyer - Industry focus: Healthcare & life sciences (France): Evelyne Friedel heads the dedicated healthcare department at Taylor Wessing and represents an enviable client roster in a variety of matters including product liability litigation.

Lawyer of the Year en Droit de l’Union européenne

Experience

Sale of S&IP business

Halyard Health on the sale of its surgical and infection prevention (S&IP) business to OMI.

Tasmina Goraya, PhD
Evelyne Friedel
Christian Dekoninck

Pharmaceutical portfolio divestments across 24 EU jurisdictions

Teva Pharmaceuticals Europe BV on its divestments of portfolios of generic pharmaceutical products (approximately 260 medicinal products) in 24 EU jurisdictions to multiple purchasers, in addition to advising Teva on the divestment of certain parts of its business. The divestments were a condition enforced by the European Commission to approve Teva's USD40.5 billion acquisition of Allergan plc’s global generics and have been run as a competitive auction process, resulting in five asset sales.

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Dr. Wolfgang Rehmann
Radovan Pala, Ph.D., LL.M.

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