Elisabeth Kohoutek
Areas of practice
Elisabeth Kohoutek is a life sciences attorney and digital health expert providing strategic legal counsel to pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers, digital health innovators, and entrepreneurs in the food sector. Elisabeth has extensive experience in regulatory compliance, data privacy, product liability, telemedicine, use of health data and clinical research. Elisabeth advises clients on liability and legal enforcement and represents clients in court. Her regulatory practice is complemented by comprehensive experience in conducting due diligence evaluations of life sciences targets for manufacturers, private equity firms, and investment banks.
Vita
Elisabeth Kohoutek studied law at the Universities of Heidelberg (Germany) and Barcelona (Spain). Her legal training involved working at the Frankfurt Regional Court and in law firms in Frankfurt a.M. (Germany) and New York (USA). Elisabeth Kohoutek was admitted to the German Bar in 2012.
Before moving to Luther in 2024, she worked for an internationally operating law firm.
Honors and distinctions
- JUVE Guide 2024/2025: Award "Up-and-coming in Health Care" (first awarded in 2023/2024) and listed under "Frequently Recommended" in "Health Care - Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Law" (first listed in 2023/2024)
- The Legal 500 Germany 2025: Recommendation in the category "Industry Focus – Healthcare" (first mention in 2022)
- Best Lawyers 2026: Recommendation in "Ones to Watch" in "Biotechnology Law and Life Sciences Practice" (first recommended in 2025)
- LMG Life Sciences EMEA 2023: Non-IP Litigation Rising Star
- Expert Guides Rising Stars 2022: Rising Star for Life Sciences
Clients
- Advised a medical start-up on creating an online platform for telemedicine and mail-order pharmacies
- Advised a medical SaaS solutions provider on developing an international distribution network
- Represented a pharmaceutical company in legal disputes with parallel importers for violation of pharmaceutical und trademark law
- Represented a dietary supplements manufacturer in proceedings against misleading and unlawful advertising by a competitor
- Advised an internationally operating private equity company on the acquisition of a European medical technology company
Publications
- Was ein Arzneimittel zum Arzneimittel macht – Die gesundheitsfördernde Wirkung als konstitutives Merkmal des Funktionsarzneimittels, in: PharmR, Ausgabe 5/2025
- KI-Compliance-Pflichten im Gesundheitswesen: Die KI-Kompetenz, in: Unboxing Healthcare, Ausgabe 9/2025
- Das Medizinforschungsgesetz – Große Ziele, k(l)eine Wirkung?, in Zeitschrift MedizinProdukteRecht, Heft 1/2025
- Mitautorin des Rechtshandbuchs Cybersicherheit im Gesundheitswesen, herausgegeben von Tilmann Dittrich (LL.M.), Dr. Carsten Dochow & Jan Ippach, C.F. Müller, 2024
- Keine Macht den Maschinen oder: Das Gesetz über künstliche Intelligenz, in: Unboxing Healthcare, Ausgabe 4/2023
- Berufsweg Teleärztin, in: Unboxing Healthcare, Ausgabe 4/2023
- Recht - Ein Europäischer Gesundheitsdaten(t)raum, in: Unboxing Healthcare vom 27. März 2024
- EU Medicine Reboxing Ruling Gives Guidance To Pharma Cos., in: LAW360 from 19. January 2023 (together with Ulf Grundmann)
- Editor of the chapter "The Food, Beverage and Cosmetics Law Review: Germany", in: The Law Reviews 2022, Second Edition (together with Ulf Gundmann)
- Artificial intelligence: the dawn of a new legal era, in: Thomson Reuters - Practical Law from 27. May 2021 (together with Kim Roberts)
- AI's wide open: EU outlines pioneering Artificial Intelligence Act, in: The Global Legal Post from 28. April 2021 (together with Ulf Grundmann)
- A need to know basis, in: Pharmatimes from 27. February 2019
Lectures
- 13.03.2025: Produkteinstufung als Voraussetzung für die Bestimmung erlaubter Werbung | 28. Marburger Gespräche zum Pharmarecht
- 22.01.2025: European Health Data Space -Webinar
- 24.09.2024: Update aus der Telemedizin | AK Sitzung Pharma der Bitkom e. V.
- 20.09.2024: Arbeitsgruppe Digital Health | 24. Herbsttagung der AG Medizinrecht
- 30.07.2024: KI in der Medizin – Podcast
- 26.06.2024: EU-Gesundheitsdatenraum als Vorbild für einen Rechtsdatenraum? | Zugang zum Recht für Staatenlose, Rechtsgespräch-Podcast
- 20.06.2024: BVDVA-Kongress 2024
- 05.06.2024: Tech Transforming Care: Enhancingint the Patient Experience | health.tech 2024
- 17.05.2024: Startschuss für den AI Act - Was Pharmaunternehmen wissen müssen, Frühjahrstagung des Pharmalizenzclubs
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