Eveline Van Keymeulen
Eveline Van Keymeulen is a partner in Latham & Watkins’ Brussels and Paris offices and a member of the firm’s healthcare and life sciences practice.
Ms Van Keymeulen advises multinational companies and start-ups in the pharmaceutical, biotech, medical devices, cosmetics, and food and beverage sectors on a broad variety of complex European, domestic and cross-border regulatory matters, including clinical trials, product approvals, regulatory incentives, market access, promotion and advertising, post-market obligations, and general compliance matters.
In addition, Ms Van Keymeulen has extensive experience advising on medical cannabis and hemp-based product regulations. She successfully challenged the legality of French hemp regulations in the first case related to cannabidiol (CBD) products before the Court of Justice of the European Union (Case C-663/18, Kanavape). This landmark judgment had a major impact on the development of the European CBD industry.
Ms Van Keymeulen is ranked in Chambers for Life Sciences Regulatory (since 2020) and recognised as a Legal 500 Rising Star / Next Generation Lawyer in Healthcare and Life Sciences (since 2018). She is considered a National and Global Leader by Who’s Who Legal Life Sciences (since 2016) and is further recognised as one of the leading life sciences practitioners in France by Legal Media Group 2021, Best Lawyers 2021 and Euromoney’s Women in Business Law Expert Guide 2021. Ms Van Keymeulen was also recognised as European Advisory Lawyer of the Year (2021) by, and won Impact Deal of the Year at, the prestigious Europe LMG Life Sciences Awards (2021-2022). Clients particularly value her “high level of energy”, and appreciate her for “being extremely flexible and genuinely engaged” as well as having a “can do attitude” while some have even called her a “rockstar”.
Ms Van Keymeulen has authored numerous articles and has been a featured speaker on EU regulatory matters at prominent conferences such as the Pharmaceutical Law Academy in Cambridge. Ms Van Keymeulen also serves on the editorial board of the European Pharmaceutical Law Review. In addition, Ms Van Keymeulen has been quoted in BBC Business Daily, Bloomberg, The Times, Les Echos and other leading international business journals on life sciences regulatory and policy matters.