Cécile Théard-Jallu is a partner at the international law firm De Gaulle Fleurance. She is a recognized expert in health and life sciences law, digital and new technologies law, as well as commercial law.

She provides strategic advice to multinational corporations and SMEs on regulatory compliance, the protection and valorization of personal and non-personal data (including data spaces and databases), cybersecurity, and digital technologies (IT, internet, cryptography, artificial intelligence, digital twins, blockchain, metaverse, IoT, Big Data, 3D/4D printing, robotics, drones, etc.).

Cécile Théard-Jallu has developed significant expertise in complex contractual operations, particularly in R&D, consortium agreements, technology transfer, and licensing, at French, European, and international levels, with or without public funding. This includes advising clients on structuring, drafting, negotiating, and implementing their commercial, IT, technological, and industrial contracts.

In the healthcare sector, she supports clients from the pharmaceutical, cosmetics, medical device, wellness, and healthcare industries in designing and implementing their innovation strategies. Her work notably covers product and service regulation, clinical trials, R&D projects, market access, post-market activities, compliance, vigilance, telemedicine, AI, digital twins in healthcare, quantum technologies, primary and secondary data use programs, connected devices, and, more broadly, the concepts of One Health and smart cities.

Alongside other stakeholders, she supports the development of prevention, longevity, personalized medicine, and algorithmic medicine programs. She has also developed specific expertise in projects at the intersection of healthcare and space, including the research and development of new equipment, future clinical trials, telemedicine and satellite connectivity, governance of sensitive space data and its use for health purposes, as well as AI and digital twins for space operations and infrastructure.

As a certified advisor under the Europrivacy GDPR compliance certification program, she represents De Gaulle Fleurance within the Cyber & Security cluster of the Systematic Paris Region competitiveness hub. She has also been appointed as an expert within the European Commission’s TEHDaS (Towards the European Health Data Space) program. On behalf of her firm, she is a member of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) BSGN agri-food accelerator and contributes to ESA’s new work program on the future European space data ecosystem.
A member of the Sofia-Santé learned society in AI and health, she leads several legal modules in the postgraduate diploma (DU) in AI and health at the University of Burgundy. She is also a member of the advisory committee of the Health Law and Life Sciences Commission and of the Space Law Commission of the International Bar Association.