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Fund sponsors are increasingly turning to NAV (net asset value) financing to meet a variety of needs and objectives. On this podcast, Ropes & Gray finance counsel Patricia Teixeira is joined by managing director and partner of Fund Finance Partners Anastasia Kaup to discuss key terms and negotiating points in NAV credit facilities, market trends, and predictions for the future.

On this Ropes & Gray podcast, Jeff Katz, the head of the firm's shareholder engagement practice, and Bryan Lowrance, an associate in the same practice, discuss how active asset managers are successfully—and often quietly—engaging with public companies to increase value and improve corporate governance. On this episode, Jeff and Bryan discuss what they mean by “activism for non-activists” and p...

On this inaugural episode of Ropes & Gray’s podcast series, Carbon Talk , asset management partner Jeremy Liabo and associate Anne Fox provide listeners with an introduction to the global carbon markets. Throughout their discussion, Jeremy and Anne outline the chief differences between mandatory carbon markets, on the one hand, and voluntary carbon markets, on the other hand. As part of this o...

On this episode of Ropes & Gray’s California Law for Asset Managers podcast series, asset management counsel Catherine Skulan provides an overview of California’s fee disclosure law, its implications in connection with fundraising with California pension plans and how the market has responded and adapted to the law since its enactment over five years ago.

On this episode of the R&G Tech Studio , mergers & acquisitions partner Sarah Young sits down with data, privacy & cybersecurity partner Fran Faircloth to discuss how she advises clients on all aspects of corporate strategy, and whether she thinks artificial intelligence and machine learning will impact her clients in the months and years ahead.

On this episode of There Has to Be a Better Way? , co-hosts Zach Coseglia and Hui Chen speak with Kevin Espinoza, a former collegiate coach who moved into compliance from sales and marketing. He talks about how this unique perspective has informed his approach to build compliance programs that embed compliance within the business, with compliance professionals focused on the same business goals as...

On this episode of Ropes & Gray’s podcast series, The Sponsor’s Edge: Insights on Growth and Venture Investing , asset management counsel Catherine Skulan hosts the second of a two-part conversation between Brad Flint, partner and co-lead of Ropes & Gray’s venture investing & emerging companies practice, and Raj Banerjee, a senior associate in that practice. Brad and Raj cover some tra...

On this episode of Ropes & Gray’s California Law for Asset Managers podcast series, asset management counsel Catherine Skulan provides an overview of the lobbying law regime and registration requirements applicable to asset managers seeking investments from California pension plans and retirement systems.

On this episode of There Has to Be a Better Way? , co-hosts Zach Coseglia and Hui Chen talk to Dr. Rumman Chowdhury, a pioneer in the field of responsible AI. Currently a Responsible AI Fellow at Harvard, with prior leadership roles at Twitter and Accenture, Rumman has first-hand insight into the real harms of AI, including algorithmic bias. She discusses how data scientists seek to understand the...

We are pleased to introduce a new Ropes & Gray podcast series, The Sponsor’s Edge: Insights on Growth and Venture Investing , which explores a variety of subjects of importance to growth and venture fund sponsors. This series will feature attorneys from a number of practice groups at Ropes & Gray, including private funds, venture investing & emerging companies, and restructuring, as th...

On this Ropes & Gray podcast, health care counsel Leslie Thornton discusses the recent developments and trends related to at-home care coming out of the public health emergency (PHE). She talks about impacts of pandemic-era waivers and flexibilities, focusing on telehealth—including on state licensure, telefraud, HIPAA, and hospital-at-home—remote prescribing, and clinical trials, as well as t...

On this episode of There Has to Be a Better Way? , co-hosts Zach Coseglia and Hui Chen speak with researchers at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business about the value of corporate compliance programs. Compliance can be (inaccurately) perceived as a “cost center” or an “enabling function,” supporting rather than contributing to product development and business strategy. But business law an...

On this episode of Women @ RopesTalk , hosted by health care partner Christine Moundas, life sciences regulatory & compliance counsel Beth Weinman interviews Jennifer Zachary, executive vice president and general counsel of Merck. Jennifer describes her unique trajectory from science major in college to associate chief counsel at the FDA to law firm partner and finally to her role as the top l...

COSO recently released supplemental guidance on achieving effective internal control over sustainability reporting. The guidance is very timely, given recently adopted, pending and proposed sustainability reporting requirements in several jurisdictions. In addition, companies are seeking to bring more rigor to their voluntary ESG disclosures, both to meet market expectations and to mitigate evolvi...

With a choppy fundraising climate and uncertainty about broader global macro trends, as well as in some cases heightened capital constraints, many LPs are keenly focused on ways to improve their investment processes. On this episode of Ropes & Gray’s Alternative Asset Insights podcast series, partners Isabel Dische, Vince Ip and Sean Seelinger focus on some best practices for operational due d...

Join partners Greg Levine and Josh Oyster from Ropes & Gray’s life sciences regulatory and compliance practice group for a special edition of Non-binding Guidance , a podcast series which focuses on current trends in life sciences regulatory law as well as other important developments affecting the life sciences industry. On this episode, Greg and Josh discuss the publication of Ropes & Gr...

On this final episode of Ropes & Gray’s Value-based Care Collides with Competition podcast series, antitrust attorneys Jane Willis and David Young discuss the intersection between federal antitrust enforcement and state regulatory review of health care transactions.

On this episode of There Has to Be a Better Way? , co-hosts Zach Coseglia and Hui Chen talk to Antoine Ferrère, global head of behavioral and data science in the ethics, risk and compliance department at Novartis. With master’s degrees in both management and behavioral science, Antoine discusses how his multidisciplinary team at Novartis applies behavioral and data science at scale to drive ethica...

On this episode of Ropes & Gray’s Value-based Care Collides with Competition podcast series, health care partner Christina Bergeron discusses the impact of current and proposed state laws regulating health care access, cost and quality on transactions involving management services organizations (MSOs) and dental support organizations (DSOs). 

On this Ropes & Gray podcast, asset management attorneys Melissa Bender and Charlie Humphreville discuss the SEC’s proposed amendments to Rule 206(4)-2 under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the so-called “custody rule,” and how they will impact registered investment advisers that hold and invest in crypto assets. Ropes & Gray has a number of resources regarding the proposed changes to...

On this episode of There Has to Be a Better Way? , co-hosts Zach Coseglia and Hui Chen reflect on the last six months of insights and “better ways” from the podcast. From looking outside of your normal environment for better ways, to leaning into the importance of precision, to thinking like a scientist and drawing on radical creativity, this episode adds new dimensions to key topics with addition...

On this episode of the R&G Tech Studio , intellectual property transactions and technology counsel Emily Karlberg discusses the critical role intellectual property plays in carve-out transactions.

On this episode of Women @ RopesTalk , hosted by IP transactions partner Megan Baca, litigation & enforcement partner Amy Jane Longo interviews Jennifer Chun Barry, associate general counsel in special investigations at Meta. With experience as a federal prosecutor, an SEC trial attorney and an in-house lawyer at a global tech company, Jennifer has had a varied and interesting legal career, an...

On this episode of Ropes & Gray’s Value-based Care Collides with Competition podcast series, private equity partner Marty Ruhaak is joined by health care attorneys Jenn Romig and Meg Lewellyn to discuss the practical effects of recent federal and state government efforts to scrutinize private equity-funded health care entities and state legislative developments to impose oversight over health...

During some of the most divisive times in U.S. history, a small group of Democrats and Republicans defied all odds and learned to work together to get things done. It’s an inspiring story of success that you almost never hear about in Congress. On this episode of There Has to Be a Better Way? , co-hosts Zach Coseglia and Hui Chen talk with Dr. Marian Currinder, a political scientist and former pro...