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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...

Over the last year-plus, there has been a growing anti-ESG movement in the United States. Most of the focus has been on asset managers. As the leading asset management practice, Ropes & Gray has been in the trenches advising clients on these issues on a daily basis.  On this podcast, Ropes & Gray thought leaders come together for a timely in-depth discussion of the most recent anti-ESG dev...

On this episode of Ropes & Gray’s Value-based Care Collides with Competition podcast series, health care attorneys Brett Friedman, Christina Bergeron and Natalie LaRue discuss the recent developments and trends related to health care access, cost and quality on the East Coast. Efforts by these East Coast states mirror the efforts on the West Coast in states like Oregon, Washington, Nevada and...

Co-hosts Zach Coseglia and Hui Chen speak with Katy Choo, VP and chief counsel of global investigations at General Electric. Katy is one of the most highly respected figures in corporate internal investigations, and has led a multitude of investigations both as a prosecutor and in-house at GE. On this episode of There Has to Be a Better Way? , Katy shares her “humanizing” approach to investigation...

On this Ropes & Gray podcast, asset management attorney Kevin White discusses reasons why a sponsor would consider conducting a GP-led secondary transaction. Ropes & Gray has recently been ranked as the #1 firm in the 2023 Secondaries Investor  Annual Survey , and the market for these transactions has grown significantly over the last several years. Many sponsors who have not previously be...

The SEC has proposed sweeping changes to its custody rule that would impose new obligations on registered investment advisers with respect to physical assets such as real estate. On this Ropes & Gray podcast, regulatory partner Nicole Krea discusses how these requirements would affect investment advisers in their management of real estate assets.

On this episode of the R&G Tech Studio , strategic transactions co-lead Marko Zatylny sits down with technology, media & telecommunications co-lead Ed Black to discuss how the current regulatory and geopolitical environments are affecting how tech companies are evaluating future opportunities globally.

On this episode of Ropes & Gray’s Value-based Care Collides with Competition podcast series, health care attorneys Jenn Romig and Jaclyn Freshman discuss the deal impacts of new state laws in California, Oregon and Washington focused on regulating health care access, cost and quality. 

On this episode of There Has to Be a Better Way? , co-hosts Zach Coseglia and Hui Chen talk to Patrick McGowan, senior director for global compliance auditing and monitoring at industrial tech innovator Fortive. With a JD, MBA and background in forensic accounting, Patrick discusses how using quantitative methods to analyze seemingly small compliance issues can lead to big human insights.

This installment of Ropes & Gray’s podcast series Non-binding Guidance explores recent regulatory developments related to the development and approval of oncology drugs in the U.S. and Europe. On this episode, hear from Ropes & Gray FDA regulatory partner Josh Oyster and head of the European life sciences practice Lincoln Tsang as they compare approaches from FDA and E.U. legislation, and...

We are pleased to introduce a new podcast series, Value-based Care Collides with Competition , that explores how aggressive federal and state enforcement of antitrust and other competition laws appears to be in tension with the nationwide shift to value-based care models. The series will examine how the adoption of new state competition, quality, access and cost laws is creating additional burdens...