Mary Capizzi

Mary Devlin Capizzi advises individual corporations and consortia clients on complex regulatory compliance, legislative, scientific and policy issues and engages with key regulatory agencies on their behalf. Clients in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, health, consumer goods and technology sectors rely on Mary to help advance their business goals and achieve regulatory compliance. She also is highly valued for her facilitation of cross-industry and industry-wide initiatives focused on collaborative technology development and data sharing. Mary is an authority on product quality, research and development, data privacy, security and strategy, supply chain management, and other policy and management issues. A long-time firm leader, Mary is co-leader of Faegre Drinker's Health and Life Sciences Industry Group and is currently is serving her third term as a member of the firm’s Board. For more than 20 years, Mary has worked with industry leaders to establish consortia that address complex global business challenges. She leads the consensus-building processes for these initiatives and assists in devising and executing initiatives that inject efficiencies and reap collective benefits for consortia members. She has facilitated numerous cross-industry and industry-specific roundtables and events focused on best practices and identifying pathways for optimal collaboration. As legal counsel, Mary advises on domestic and global strategic priorities, responses to legislative and regulatory proposals, and overseeing interactions with governmental and scientific agencies in the U.S. and globally. Early in her career, Mary worked in the Chicago office, where she focused on securities work and corporate compliance counseling for publicly traded companies. Prior to joining the firm, she worked at Shearman & Sterling in New York as part of the team representing bank advisory committees in negotiations with Latin American governments on the restructuring of sovereign external debt. She is a fluent Spanish speaker.