As co-head of our International Life Sciences & Healthcare group and head of Bird & Bird’s Regulatory, Public & Administrative Law group in Brussels, he provides cutting edge strategic and regulatory advice to the life sciences clients and represent them in litigation. He offers both contentious and non-contentious strategic advice to Belgian and international pharma, biotech and medical devices companies, public bodies and national and European industry associations facing complex regulatory frameworks. His areas of expertise covers issues relating to life-cycle management, clinical trials and data, data exclusivity, marketing, price and reimbursement authorisations, and e-health together with data protection, distribution and advertising issues. He provides advice to biotech companies on issues regarding Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products as well as the legal and bioethical issues relating to research and use of human cells and tissues. He regularly represents our clients before the nationals jurisdictions as well as before the European Court. His public and administrative law expertise covers the full range of sub practices in public procurement and related litigation, environmental law, REACH, RoHS, WEES and other Belgian and EU compliance issues. He holds a law degree from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), where he worked for four years as a research assistant, and a degree in public and administrative law from the University of Brussels. Before joining Bird & Bird, he was an expert adviser to the Vice-Prime Minister of Belgium for 3 years. He speaks and publish on life sciences regulatory topics and teach an introduction to Biotech Law at the VUB. He is also on the board of the Belgian Biotech organisation BIO.BE.
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Competition rules are aimed at safeguarding healthy competition between companies. For more than half a century the EU and its Member States have vigorously defended effective competition by pursuing and sanctioning anti-competitive agreements and abuses of dominant positions. The pharma sector (...)
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