
Profile
Christian Rybak is a Shareholder and Chair of the German Health Care & Life Science Practice at Greenberg Traurig. He is a leading practitioner in medical and health care law, in health policy and public policy advice for the healthcare and life sciences industry. With over two decades of experience, he combines legal experience, comprehensive market knowledge and strategic vision to provide comprehensive advice to companies, institutions, government organizations and service providers on how to overcome legal, regulatory, and economic challenges. His clients include well-known pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers, food and cosmetics manufacturers, government agencies and ministries.
In addition to market access and reimbursement, his areas of expertise include health policy issues, regulatory affairs and compliance, aspects of competition and drug advertising law, as well as strategic and regulatory legal advice.
Before joining Greenberg Traurig, Christian Rybak was a partner at Ehlers, Ehlers & Partner and worked for international law firms in Munich, San Francisco, and Detroit, among other places.
Concentrations
- Health Care & Life Sciences
- Pharma
- Medical Devices
- Hospitals and Outpatient Care
- Market Access and Reimbursement: Legal protection and strategic planning of market access for drugs, medical devices, methods and digital health applications
- Regulatory Affairs & Compliance: advice on approval procedures as well as regulatory requirements and compliance at national and international level
- Competition law: support with legally compliant advertising and minimizing legal risks
- Health policy advice: development of strategies that are aligned with current political and regulatory trends and enable tailored strategies in individual cases
- Litigation: representation in a wide range of legal disputes, from product liability to regulatory disputes
Capabilities
Recognition & Leadership
- JUVE, recommended: Health Law “excellent”: 2024
- Lexology Client Choice Awards 2024, 2025
- Corporate INTL Global Awards Winner 2024
- Member of the German Pharmaceutical Industry Association (BPI)
- Member of EUCOPE (European Confederation of Pharmaceutical Entrepreneurs)
- Member of the German Society for Telemedicine
- Member of the German-American Lawyers' Association
- Member of the Society for Law and Politics in Healthcare (GRPG)
- Member of the German Society for Integrated Care
- Member of the German Society for Health Economics
- Member of the “Committee for Market Access / IQWiG / G-BA (BPI)”
- Member of the BPI Marketing Committee
- Member of the BPI Working Group for Health Services Research
Credentials
- Dr. jur., University of Bayreuth, 2005
- Second state examination in law, Munich, 2006
- First state examination in law, Bayreuth, 2001
- German University of Administrative Sciences, Speyer
- Germany
- German
- English
- French