Christian López Silva

Practice Areas

Founder and managing partner at SaúdeLaw. Dr. Lopez-Silva, brings a wealth of expertise as a former Partner and Head of Healthcare & Life Sciences at Baker McKenzie Mexico. He specializes in regulatory, transactional and hybrid intellectual property issues across a broad range of health-related industries. 

Christian regularly advises in relation to the manufacturing, import, distribution, advertising, labelling, commercialization and post-market vigilance of medicines, medical devices, food and beverages, cosmetics, seeds, veterinary products, chemicals, cannabis, alcohol and tobacco. 

Christian has contributed to developing strategies that have shaped and protected the operations of major leaders in the pharma and medical device sector, making him a very visible player in the life sciences industries. 

He pioneered the specialization in regulatory affairs in Mexico and has contributed to the consolidation of health regulation as an autonomous legal field. Christian is a regular speaker and author of several legal publications. He has taught in different universities (e.g. ELD, ITAM), at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. 

His commitment to the healthcare & life sciences industries has included engaging and actively participating with Medicine Associations and Academy, Chemists Associations, as well as promoting the creation of Health Committees in all major Bar Associations, and finally creating the Mexican Association of Health Law and Regulation. 

Christian holds a Bachelors in Law from Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM), graduating with honors, as well as a Master’s Degree on Biotech Law & Ethics and a PhD on International Regulation of Life Sciences, from the University of Sheffield (UK). 

With that outstanding career Christian has been ranked for many years as the top life sciences lawyer in Mexico, by the main legal directories, including particularly Chambers.

Professional Memberships

Health and Life Sciences Committee for the IBA (International Bar Association) based in London - Member

International Life Sciences and Healthcare Committee for the ABA (American Bar Association) based in Chicago - Member

National Association of Corporate Lawyers (ANADE) - Committee on Health Regulation - Coordinator

Mexican Association for Health Law and Regulation (AMDERSA) - Founding President

British Chamber of Commerce in Mexico - Life Sciences & Healthcare Business Group - Member

International Law Association - Committee on International Law on Biotechnology based in London - Member

Publications

Author, "Regulatory Compliance", In Compliance Manual: Legal Obligations & Practical Advice for Companies. National Association of Corporate Lawyers (ANADE), Ed. Tirant Lo Blanch, Mexico, 2023

Author, "Tacit approvals as a method of regulation in health law", In Health Law: A Comprehensive Perspective. Ed. Tirant Lo Blanch, Mexico, 2022

Author, "Current State on Health Regulation in Mexico", Abogado Corporativo (Magazine), ANADE, Vol 11(1), November 2022

Author, "Mexico in Urgent Need of Emergency Use Regulation", Expert Contributor, Mexico Business News, January 2022.

Co-Author, "Are we there yet? When it comes to E-Prescriptions, no, we´re not", Expert Contributor, Mexico Business News, September 2021.

Author, "International trade law and local health law: regulatory harmonisation and regulatory convergence," IBA Committee on Healthcare & Life Sciences Newsletter, Vol 3 (1), September 2018

Author, "Increased attention of antitrust authorities on the healthcare industries in Mexico," IBA Committee on Healthcare & Life Sciences Newsletter, Vol 2 (1), September 2017

Author, "A legal model for predictive medicine," Chapter X, in Medicine Models and Law Models, Coordinators, Jose Ramon Cossio and Ruy Perez Tamayo, Ed. Tirant Lo Blanch, Mexico, 2015

Author, "Mexico resumes regulatory leadership on biotech and biosimilars", Gaceta Medica de Mexico, National Academy of Medicine, Vol 148 (1), January 2012

Languages Spoken

Spanish - Native

English - Fluent

Portuguese - Intermediate