Regulatory support as well as the advice on competition, corporate and data protection law are key strengths of Covington & Burling LLP‘s multidisciplinary life sciences practice, which is regularly called upon by national and international pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical technology companies and associations. The most recent instructions pertain to approval procedures before the European Medicines Agency (EMA), the advice on EU-wide distribution of a new medical device and the representation of a client before the European Court of Justice in connection with data access. Practice head Adem Koyuncu is dually qualified as physician and lawyer and is well versed in regulatory matters, where he regularly acts at the interface between EU and national law.