Marc Martens
As co-head of our International Life Sciences & Healthcare group and head of Bird & Bird's Regulatory, Public & Administrative Law group in Brussels, Marc provides cutting edge strategic and regulatory advice to our life sciences clients and represent them in litigation. Marc 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. Marc's areas of expertise cover 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. Marc 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 clients before the nationals jurisdictions as well as before the European Court. Marc's 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. · Bird & Bird
About
Marc Martens is a partner at Bird & Bird, co-head of the International Life Sciences & Healthcare group and head of the Regulatory, Public & Administrative Law group in Brussels. He advises Belgian and international pharma, biotech, and medical devices companies on regulatory matters including life-cycle management, clinical trials, data exclusivity, marketing, pricing, reimbursement, e-health, data protection, distribution, and advertising. He also has expertise in public and administrative law, including public procurement, environmental law, REACH, RoHS, and WEES compliance. He represents clients before national jurisdictions and the European Court, and previously served as an expert adviser to the Vice-Prime Minister of Belgium. He speaks French, Dutch, English, basic German, Portuguese, and Spanish, and is on the board of BIO.BE.