Ina Brock | Munich | Hogan Lovells

Ina Brock

Partner Litigation, Arbitration, and Employment

Languages

English, German

Brock Ina

Ina Brock
Brock Ina
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Ina Brock advises clients on how to stay in control of the most complex cross border litigation and crisis communication matters. She has successfully defended her clients in more than 500 German court cases on all levels. She has won cases in the German Supreme Court and the European Court of Justice. Additionally, Ina has navigated clients through the coordination of more than 60,000 claims in class actions and group litigation cases in more than 30 countries worldwide.

Ina is a European life sciences market leader and advises pharmaceutical and medical device companies in the areas of product liability and product compliance across Europe, North America, Asia Pacific, and Latin America. As clinical trial and insurance claims arise, clients turn to Ina for her holistic advice. Through her extensive public relations experience, she understands how to protect a company's reputation in legal disputes. She advises clients on COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics. In addition, she currently coordinates the worldwide defense of the largest product liability case in the medical sector, the PIP breast implant litigation. Ina works with clients to help them understand their shifting risk landscape, as technology disrupts their industries, and helps them to ensure they're maximizing the use of technology to mitigate those risks.

Ina regularly receives recognition from prominent legal directories as a key contact for Hogan Lovells, as well as a notable practitioner in the areas of product liability and life sciences.

Representative experience

Defending and coordinating the defence for a leading pharmaceutical company in more than 27 countries after the voluntary product withdrawal.

Global defense of global certification company against liability claims resulting from allegedly inappropriate certification of breast implant manufacturer P.I.P.

Advising a German DAX 40 company on an internal compliance investigation in more than 50 countries worldwide including criminal law charges.

Coordinating and defending litigation matters for a bioscience company regarding allegedly contaminated blood products, vaccines and pharmaceuticals.

Advising an international pharmaceutical company on claims of clinical trial subjects in China as well as on issues of clinical trial insurance.

Assisting one of the world's leading aerospace companies with the negotiation of settlements and litigation in connection with aviation accidents.

Representing a pharmaceuticals manufacturer in internal investigations on reported adverse events associated with a flu vaccine and defending claims.

Assisting a vaccines company with the defense against damage and information claims re a HPV vaccine and representing the client in court proceedings.

Credentials

Education
  • Second State Exam in Law, Schleswig-Holstein/Hamburg, 1995
  • First State Exam in Law, LMU Munich (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), 1993

Recognition

Dispute Resolution: Litigation (Germany)

Chambers Global

2023
Leading lawyer for life sciences

Chambers Europe

2023
Leading lawyer for dispute resolution: litigation

Chambers Europe

2023
Thought Leader in life sciences and product liability defence

Global Elite, Who's Who Legal

2022
Thought Leader in life sciences

Who's Who Legal

2022
Included for pharmaceuticals law, product liability litigation, arbitration and mediation, health care law and litigation law

Edition Best Lawyers™ in Germany

2021
TOP Lawyer for Litigation

WirtschaftsWoche

2021
Product Liability Litigation Lawyer of the Year in Germany

Edition Best Lawyers™ in Germany

2020
Acritas Star

Acritas Stars –Independently rated lawyers report

2018-2020
Dispute Resolution: Product Liability, Leading Individual

Legal 500 EMEA

2018-2019
Industry Focus: Healthcare and Life Sciences

Legal 500 EMEA

2018-2019
Winner of the Women in Law 2018 Award

Lawyer Monthly

2018
Winner of the Client Choice award for Litigation

Client Choice

2017