Alice Decramer

Alice Decramer, an associate in the Paris office of Signature Litigation AARPI, has been named Pharmaceuticals Sector Advisory Expert of the Year in France at the 2024 Corporate INTL Global Awards. The recognition reflects the strength of her disputes practice in matters touching the pharmaceutical and wider healthcare industries, where product liability, regulatory complexity and technical evidence converge to create some of the most challenging litigation a business can face.

Ms Decramer works within a Paris office widely regarded as home to one of France's leading product liability practices. Her practice centres on commercial litigation, product liability and disputes across the manufacturer and supplier chain, together with insurance matters, and she acts for clients from a broad spread of industries. The pharmaceutical and life sciences sectors feature prominently in her work, sitting alongside the nuclear, energy, automotive, construction, food and cosmetics fields, and it is her sustained engagement with pharmaceutical clients that underpins this award.

Much of Ms Decramer's expertise lies in the handling of national and cross-border product liability disputes for both manufacturers and insurers. She has developed a particular specialism in managing expert proceedings within multi-party litigation, a skill of especial importance in pharmaceutical cases, where questions of causation, safety and regulatory compliance are typically resolved through contested expert evidence. Her ability to coordinate technical input and to structure the presentation of scientific material is central to the advice she offers clients defending or pursuing claims in this field.

Her contribution to the sector extends beyond individual matters. Ms Decramer has co-authored the France chapter of the International Comparative Legal Guide to Drug and Medical Device Litigation, addressing the regulatory framework, data privacy and product recall issues that shape pharmaceutical disputes, and she has similarly contributed to comparative guides on product regulation and liability. This body of published analysis marks her out as a practitioner engaged with the wider development of the law, and reflects an authority recognised through her inclusion in The Best Lawyers in France guide. Her education at the Sorbonne, Dauphine University and Leiden University in the Netherlands adds an international dimension well suited to the cross-border nature of pharmaceutical litigation.

Signature Litigation is a dedicated disputes firm, and its Paris team combines lawyers trained at leading international practices with a clear focus on complex, high-value contentious work. Within that environment Ms Decramer's concentration on the pharmaceutical sector gives clients access to advice that is both technically grounded and strategically astute. The Corporate INTL Global Awards recognise advisers who demonstrate genuine command of their field within a jurisdiction, and in naming Alice Decramer Pharmaceuticals Sector Advisory Expert of the Year in France for 2024, the awards affirm her expertise in one of the most demanding areas of product liability practice.