Maria Isabel Manley

Maria Isabel ('Marie') Manley leads Sidley Austin's Life Sciences team in London and is a distinguished thought leader and adviser on EU and UK regulatory law. She represents development-stage and established global life sciences companies in a broad spectrum of matters, both contentious and non-contentious. Marie advises clients in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical devices, chemicals, cosmetics and food sectors in proceedings before both national and European courts and the regulatory agencies in the UK and across Europe. She has particular experience on issues arising during the life cycle of medicinal products, including IP, advertising, product liability and competition.

Marie has represented a number of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies in litigation before the EU and English Courts, as well as before the regulatory authorities, including the European Commission, the European and UK medicines authorities (EMA and MHRA), the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), and the Department of Health. She has extensive experience in coordinating multijurisdictional litigation throughout the EU/EEA and overseas.

Marie is recognized as a leader in her field, including a band 1 ranking in Chambers UK 2018 for Life Sciences: Regulatory, as well as recommendations in The Legal 500, Who's Who Legal and Best Lawyers. Most recently, she has been selected by her peers for inclusion in the Seventh Edition of The Best Lawyers in the United Kingdom (2019) for Life Sciences Law. Marie is also a lecturer at ESADE (Madrid).