Dr. Vera Rödel

Dr. Vera Rödel

Germany, Frankfurt am Main
Senior Corporate Counsel – Global lead Antitrust at Merck KGaA
Profession: Attorney / Solicitor, Lawyer
Industry: Chemicals, Life Sciences, Competition

About:

Being a lawyer and active in the pharmaceutical industry for now more than 10 years and having completed a master (Master in Health & Medical Management) alongside the job, I am as Senior Corporate Counsel – Global lead Antitrust - providing antitrust guidance on main types of commercial contracts, issuing regular reports to Group General Counsel and top management and advising from a Group perspective on changes in antitrust laws and policies and develop strategies to address their impact.

languages

German, English, French

Expertise:

AntitrustAntitrust LawCommercial agreementsEU LawEU antitrust International LawLegal ResearchState Aid

Experience:

Merck KGaA

Senior Corporate Counsel – Global lead Antitrust at Merck KGaA

April 2022 - Present • Darmstadt, Germany

I am providing high level antitrust guidance on main types of commercial contracts (e.g., supply agreements, distribution agreements, collaboration agreement), issuing regular reports to Group General Counsel and top management and advising from a Group perspective on (potential) changes in antitrust laws and policies and develop strategies to address their impact.

Head of Global Legal Neurology & Immunology and Cardio Metabolic & Endocrinology at Merck KGaA

6 years • April 2016 - April 2022 • Darmstadt, Germany

Global and local (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) legal support: part of the Neurology & Immunology and Global Cardio Metabolic & Endocrinology leadership team, advice regarding promotional material and commercial and medical activities, draft and negotiation of contracts (i.e. license-, marketing-, promotion and service agreements), steering of external legal support

Education:

Düsseldorf

Interdisciplinary certificate course (digitalization incl. Smart Factory, Smart Commerce, Smart Contracts, Big Data, Virtual and Augmented Reality, IT, Programming languages, Digital security, Data privacy and social media)

Nürnberg

Master in Health and Medical Management Master’s degree alongside the job (basics of medicine)

Higher Regional Court of Mainz / School of administration in Speyer / Rhineland-Palatinate regional mission at the European Union in Brussels /Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH

2009 – 2011 Legal clerkship (Higher Regional Court of Mainz / School of administration in Speyer / Rhineland-Palatinate regional mission at the European Union in Brussels /Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH) 26/05/2011 Second state examination, “vollbefriedigend” (grade 9,85) 21/07/2011 Admission to the Frankfurt Bar 10/07/2009 First state examination, “vollbefriedigend” (grade 10,44) 2004 – 2009 Law studies at Johannes Gutenberg-University in Mainz

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