Sonia Selletti

Founder at Astolfi e Associati Studio Legale

Biography

Born 1967, she graduated in Law at the University of Pavia in 1991, she is member of the Milan Bar Association since 1995 and is entitled to practice at the Supreme Courts.

She co-founder and partner at Studio Legale Astolfi e Associati law firm since 1995.

Editor-in-chief of the legal journal "Rassegna di diritto farmaceutico e della salute".

Author several publications.

She mainly works in pharmaceutical and health law, cosmetic products, health supplements, and medical devices (life sciences). She also provides judicial and extra-judicial assistance and consultancy to companies and trade associations that mainly operate in the pharmaceutical, medical devices, health food products and cosmetics sectors.

She chairs the Supervisory Bodies of a number of pharmaceutical and medical companies under Legislative Decree 231/2001. She is member of BoD.

She has collaborated with the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Pavia, giving lectures as part of the administrative law course on procedures for access to the pharmaceuticals market.

In the field of education, she collaborates with universities and research institutions on training activities, including ECM-accredited events for healthcare professionals.

She is a lecturer at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, ALTEMS - Graduate School of Economics and Management of Healthcare Systems, and at the Executive Education Open programme at Luiss Business School.

She holds lectures at conventions and congresses and provides instruction in pharmaceutical and medical law, also to medical workers for the purposes of ECM (ongoing education in medicine).

Recent publications:

International Comparative Legal Guides The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Pharmaceutical Advertising”, A practical cross-border insight into pharmaceutical advertising, Italian Chapter (2025); International Comparative Legal Guides “Global Legal Insights: Pricing & Reimbursement 2025” (2025); International Comparative Legal Guides Drug and Medical Device Litigation. “Legal Impact Analysis: Strategic and Sustainable Management in Drug & Medical Device Litigation in Italy” (2025);

Nanobiotechnology: Innovation, applications and future Horizons “Nanotechnology and artificial intelligence: legal implications in the health sector” (2025); International Comparative Legal Guides “International Comparative Legal Guides - Digital Health” (2025); Siarv News “Pubblica Amministrazione e Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ): monologo o dialogo? Dialettica o precetto?”, (2023); Legal prospective on anti-ageing Cosmetic claims: how to convey clear messages to Consumers”, Ed. Elsevier, (2020), “Patient Support Program. Cosa permette la legge”, AboutPharma, (2020), "La nuova governance della spesa farmaceutica - Una prima lettura “a caldo” della legge n. 145/2018", in Rassegna di diritto farmaceutico e della salute, 2019; “EU Cosmetic Regulation: quality enhancement of consumer and environment protection, market development”, in Bionanotechnology to Save the Environment, 2019; “L’impatto della nuova normativa privacy sugli studi clinici”, in Rassegna di diritto farmaceutico e della salute, 2018; “Italy: Pharmaceutical Advertising 2018" in The International Comparative Legal Guide to Pharmaceutical Advertising, 2018; and “Biosimilar switching and related medical liability”, in Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine - Elsevier, 2018.

President of the Fondazione Musicale I Solisti di Pavia, an instrumental body of the Fondazione Monte di Lombardia.

Languages: Italian, English, French and German.



Firm: Astolfi e Associati Studio Legale

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