Practice Areas
Cécile Théard-Jallu is an expert in innovation digital technologies, cybersecurity and data privacy, healthcare & life sciences and commercial law.
She provides strategic assistance to international groups and SMEs on regulatory compliance, data protection & digital law, databases projects, contracts and intellectual property, particularly within the healthcare and life sciences sectors, as well as in the agrifood, retail, mobility and the New Space industries.
Cécile has developed significant expertise in complex contractual operations including R&D, consortiums, technology transfers, and licensing – critical for companies navigating technological transformations with or without public funding. This encompasses advising clients on the engineering, design, negotiation, and implementation of their commercial, computer, technological, or industrial contracts.
She assists clients in developing and implementing innovation strategies encompassing clinical trials, market access, telemedicine, AI, digital twins, primary and secondary use of data schemes, connected devices, blockchain, metaverse, smart cities, and more.
As a certified advisor under the Europrivacy GDPR compliance certification scheme, she represents De Gaulle Fleurance in the Cyber & Security Hub of the European Systematic Paris Region Competitivity Cluster.
Additionally, she has been appointed as an expert in the European Commission’s TEHDaS (Towards the European Health Data Space) programme. Cécile is a member on behalf of her firm of the European Space Agency (ESA)’s agrifood BSGN accelerator and is part of ESA’s new working program on the future European Space Data Space.
Professional Memberships
- Co-chair of the Healthcare & life sciences law committee & World Life sciences conference of the International Bar Association
- Member of the Technology Law Committee of the International Bar Association
- Member of ATEC ITS & Systematic Parix Region Hub Cyber & Security
- Member of Institute for Smart Health
Publications
- Cécile Théard-Jallu & Laetitia Cesari : Page 44 “Cybersecurity: A crucial Legal Challenge for Stakeholders of the EU Space Economy” – The Legal Industry Reviews France
- Cécile Théard-Jallu : DTx – where do EU regulations stand in this emerging, rapidly-growing market?
- Cécile Théard-Jallu and Grégoire Froussart, “Artificial intelligence in pharmaceutical development and manufacturing – A promising potential in search of a legal framework”, Pharma network magazine, May 2023.
- Cécile Théard-Jallu and Guillaume Jagerschmidt, “Donnée de mobilité et acceptabilité d’un partage par le public”, Revue TEC, N°253, April 2022