Lisandro Javier Herrera Aguilar

Practice Areas

Life Sciences

Career

Lisandro is a highly specialized health and life sciences lawyer. After having served in leadership positions at international pharmaceutical companies, trade associations and specialized law firms, Lisandro joined Galicia as a senior associate in the Life Sciences practice. He is now the Firm´s counsel for the same practice.

As a former in-house lawyer, he has a profound understanding of the challenges in today’s healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors and is a recognized expert in health regulation, governmental procurement processes, pharmaceutical regulation, compliance, small and large molecule medicines, medical devices and digital health.

Currently, Lisandro acts as counsel in the New Technologies Promoting Council for the Mexican Health Foundation, known as Funsalud in Spanish. He has represented leading pharmaceutical companies active in Mexico before different trade associations and chambers of commerce as well as in the negotiations of international treaties signed by Mexico.

As a member of the academic community, Lisandro is frequently asked to speak in national and international forums on legal trends in healthcare and life sciences. He is the Academic Coordinator for the Specialized Health law course at Escuela Libre de Derecho, a professor at Universidad Panamericana and lecturer for the Law Research Institute at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).

Lisandro studied Law at Escuela Libre de Derecho and has a Master’s Degree in International Law from the University of Liverpool in England.

He is recognized as an expert by renowned international publications, such as Chambers Latin American Guide and The Legal 500 Latin American Guide, in the Life Sciences practice. Other specialized international publications highlight his “great mastery of subject matter” and “a work style that easily adapts to the needs of clients.”

Clients

Client Quotes:

"Lisandro Javier Herrera Aguilar is a great partner to us; he is highly experienced, business-savvy and service-oriented."