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On this fourth episode of Ropes & Gray’s Recent Trends & Developments in Health Care Joint Ventures podcast series, health care partner Brett Friedman discusses key regulatory considerations for payor and provider alignment models, including clinically integrated networks and vertical integration transactions, as well as approaches for mitigating risk in markets increasingly scrutinized by...

This installment of Ropes & Gray’s podcast series Non-binding Guidance focuses on FDA’s proposed rule that would affirm the Agency’s position that laboratory developed tests (“LDTs”) are in vitro diagnostic products regulated as medical devices under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (“FDCA”). In this episode, hear from Greg Levine, Josh Oyster, and Beth Weinman, industry-leading attorn...

Business professor Daniel Beunza spent years as an observer on the trading floors of Wall Street, and documents his journey in his award-winning book Taking the Floor: Models, Morals, and Management in a Wall Street Trading Room . On this episode of There Has to Be a Better Way? , Dr. Beunza shares his surprising findings about ethics, morality, and leadership in these highly intense and competiti...

On this third episode of Ropes & Gray’s Recent Trends & Developments in Health Care Joint Ventures podcast series, health care partners Tim McCrystal and Adrianne Ortega discuss recent trends in partnerships between nonprofit and for-profit entities, as well as important business, structural, and legal issues for nonprofit/for-profit joint ventures. 

On this episode of Ropes & Gray’s podcast series A Word for Our Sponsors , hosts Deb Lussier and Paul Van Houten, the co-leaders of the sponsor solutions practice, are joined by Ropes & Gray tax partner Kendi Ozmon as well as tax counsel Gil Ghatan to discuss a topic of increasing interest among fund sponsors: establishing a vehicle for implementing their philanthropic and charitable givin...

On this episode of There Has to Be a Better Way? , Shannon Kirk returns to the podcast to share “Better Ways” from multiple perspectives: As a thought leader on the application of machine learning and artificial intelligence in litigation and internal investigations, she highlights the importance of metrics as evidence of effectiveness; and as an award-winning author and lawyer, she explains why w...

Following up on Ropes & Gray’s recent article in Institutional Real Estate Americas , on this podcast, private capital transactions partner Sarah Schaffer Raux joins real estate and investment transactions partner David Kaye and counsel Pete Scherer to discuss the emerging trend of institutional real estate investors looking beyond traditional real estate joint ventures to create expanded rela...

On this second episode of Ropes & Gray’s Recent Trends & Developments in Health Care Joint Ventures podcast series, health care partner Jenn Romig discusses five key strategies to set up a health care joint venture for success. He talks about the important and everchanging regulatory requirements around these transactions, drafting tips, and key actions that stakeholders, principals, and b...

On this episode of There Has to Be a Better Way? , co-hosts Zach Coseglia and Hui Chen interview Nitish Upadhyaya, director of behavioral insights at R&G Insights Lab. Nitish is a lawyer and behavioral scientist whose research has focused on how humans interact with bots. Based on Nitish’s findings, the three discuss how technology might complement human strengths in the ethics and compliance...

Introducing A Word for Our Sponsors , a new podcast series brought to you by the sponsor solutions group at Ropes & Gray. The podcast spotlights private equity leaders and the issues that matter most to our sponsor clients. On this first episode, hosts Deb Lussier and Paul Van Houten, the co-leaders of the sponsor solutions practice, are joined by Kase Jubboori, deputy general counsel and co-h...

On this episode of the R&G Tech Studio , data, privacy & cybersecurity co-lead Rohan Massey sits down with technology, media & telecommunications co-lead Ed Black to discuss how he goes into crisis mode when his clients are hit with a ransomware attack and how he works in tandem with forensics experts, communications and crisis response teams to understand the scope of the breach and i...

We are pleased to introduce a new Ropes & Gray podcast series, Recent Trends & Developments in Health Care Joint Ventures . With increased regulatory scrutiny by state and federal regulators of mergers and acquisitions in the health care industry, joint ventures present a valuable alternative to traditional acquisition strategies for expansion and diversification of services, access to cap...

On this episode of Women @ RopesTalk , hosted by health care partner Christine Moundas, health care counsel Leslie Thornton interviews Kelly Gold, chief financial officer of CAMP4 Therapeutics, a Boston-based biotechnology company. Kelly opens up about what keeps her up at night as CFO of an early-stage, venture-backed company on the path to drug development. She describes her career journey from...

On this episode of There Has to Be a Better Way? , co-hosts Zach Coseglia and Hui Chen are joined by actor and activist Julia Ormond, founder and president of Asset Campaign, a nonprofit organization working to ensure human rights by driving supply chain transparency and empowering individuals to make informed purchasing, investment and employment decisions. Julia discusses the “aha” moment that i...

On this Ropes & Gray podcast, real estate partner Sally Davis and asset management partner Eric Requenez discuss some of the key similarities and differences between terms in real estate joint ventures and terms in real estate funds, including considerations for investors and practitioners in the space who are looking to invest through either of these structures or any of the various “hybrid”...

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...