Dr Chris Boyle > Sidley Austin LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile

With ‘unrivalled insight’ and ‘a strategic approach’, Sidley Austin LLP’s full-service life sciences practice covers the full spectrum of matters including regulatory, IP, licensing, competition, commercial and corporate mandates and leverages the firm’s network to excel at a global level. The group has recently seen notable expansion with the recruitment of the ‘tremendous’ Robert Darwin from Dechert LLP, adding to the team’s transactional capabilities; it is also increasingly recognised in the market for its digital health and medtech expertise, advising on matters involving AI, digital therapeutics and wearable technology. Practice head Maria Isabel Manley is praised as ‘quite simply peerless in her field’, focusing on regulatory and competition issues; she works closely with senior managing associate Chris Boyle, who is singled out as ‘an absolute superstar’.