Rebecca H. Williams

Experience

Promotional Compliance

• Routinely assess regulatory compliance of advertising and promotional materials for pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, and food companies.
• Routinely serve as the legal reviewer on pharmaceutical and biotech clients’ promotional review committees. 
• Seconded for four months to global biopharmaceutical company as an associate general counsel responsible for endocrinology and fertility therapeutic areas, leading legal issues relating to advertising and promotional review committees, as well as supported and advised brand teams and senior leadership and drafted commercial agreements, among other corporate responsibilities.   
• Performed an assessment of a pharmaceutical client’s promotional review committee, which involved employee interviews, reviewing SOPs and other internal documents, evaluating a sampling of promotional materials used by the company, and providing recommendations for improvement.

Transactional and Litigation Support

• Routinely perform FDA regulatory diligence for private equity funds’ acquisition of drug, medical device, and food companies. 
• Routinely perform FDA regulatory diligence for IPOs and follow-on offerings of early and late-stage pharmaceutical and biotech companies.
• Partnered with litigation teams on government investigations of pharmaceutical and device companies involving alleged FDCA violations.

General Regulatory

• Regularly advise on policies and procedures for pharmaceutical, medical device, and food clients, including policies governing GxP and quality activities, product labeling and promotional activities, internal and third party audits, vendor selection, qualification and management, complaint handling, recalls and adverse event reporting.
• Frequently advise pharmaceutical and medical device clients in connection with licensing and supply agreements.
• Advised a pharmaceutical client regarding its response to a Warning Letter alleging current Good Manufacturing Practices violations.
• Advised pharmaceutical clients on issues related to Hatch-Waxman, orphan drug exclusivity, and new chemical entity exclusivity.
• Advised medical device clients regarding issues related to recall and regulatory reporting decisions.
• Advised a compounding pharmacy on compliance matters associated with the Drug Quality and Security Act and implementing FDA regulations and guidance.
• Advised a medical device client regarding requirements for medical device distribution and use under state law.