Portolano Cavallo is pleased to announce that attorney Elisa Stefanini, who has been with the firm since 2017, has been promoted from counsel to partner. The total number of partners now rises to fourteen — seven women and seven men.
Elisa Stefanini assists Life Sciences and Healthcare players in regulatory matters such as market access, clinical trials, and promotion of drugs, medical devices, and food supplements to the public and to healthcare professionals. She also has extensive experience on digital health and telemedicine projects and all other aspects of digitalization of the Life Sciences and Healthcare sector.
Francesco Portolano, partner at Portolano Cavallo says, “In 2016 we added Life Sciences & Healthcare to our historical Digital, Media, Technology focus. Elisa’s appointment to partner is a major milestone marking the great success achieved in this area over the last five years. Thanks to Elisa and our Life Sciences group, we now represent some of the largest Italian and foreign pharmaceutical multinationals, medical device manufacturers, healthcare service providers, investors, and startups, and many others in the sector.”
Since 2019, Elisa has been included in the Legal 500 EMEA as a “Next Generation Partner” for Healthcare and Life Sciences and she is also included in Who’s Who Legal as an expert in Life Sciences (“National Leader” in the Italy guide) and Life Sciences – Regulatory (“Global Leader”).
