Fernanda Paro

Regulatory Compliance Specialist

Barcelona, Spain

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Overview

Fernanda is a Regulatory Compliance Specialist with the Global Regulatory Compliance team, currently living in Barcelona, responsible for the monitoring of regulatory updates in North, Central, and South American countries. She is an expert on the Medical Device topic.

She is the project lead for a specific project across global legislation and regularly provides in-depth analysis to complex legal queries on Medical Devices.

Fernanda holds a postgraduation degree in Constitutional Law and has a Master’s Degree in International Trade Law: Subject MedTech Compliance – Regulatory approach focused on Cybersecurity and Data Protection. She is a qualified lawyer, registered in Brazil and Portugal, and besides Portuguese and English, she also speaks Spanish, is currently learning French, and has good competencies in Italian.

Fernanda has over 4 years of experience in the legal compliance sector. Before joining Compliance & Risks in 2019, Fernanda worked as a lawyer, representing several clients and providing legal advice in the areas of constitutional, civil, and commercial law, with over 10 years of legal experience.

Experience Highlights

Over 10 years of legal experience in the areas of compliance, civil and commercial law
Monitoring of regulatory updates in North, Central and South American countries

Numerous Blogs on C&R website

MedTech Compliance – EU and US – July 2021
7 Hot Topics at MedTech Forum 2022 – May 2022
Interesting topics from BIOSpain – October 2023
MedTech Forum 2024 – 5 Key Topics – June 2024
Brazilian Optimized Registration Procedure for Medical Devices Through the Use of Analyses Carried Out by an Equivalent Foreign Regulatory Authority (EFRA) – Normative Instruction No. 290/2024 – May 2024
Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) Progress in Mexico – August 2024