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I. Introduction On May 26, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) published a proposed rule in the Federal Register entitled ...
The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability recently held a hearing titled “ESG Part I: an Examination of Environmental, Social, and Governance Practices with ...
In September 2023, the European Medicines Agency (“EMA”) will reinstate Policy 0070 (the “Policy”), pursuant to which clinical data submitted to ...
Welcome to Issue No. 10 of PErspectives—our periodic publication featuring news, trends and legal developments in the private equity (PE) industry. In this ...
On May 18, 2023, Representatives David Schweikert (R-AZ) and Don Beyer (D-VA) co-sponsored and reintroduced the “Advancing America’s Interests ...
This article was originally published by Law360 on May 22, 2023. On May 19, 2023, in coordination with similar announcements from other G7 countries, the ...
On May 18, 2023, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi, No. 21-757, affirming unanimously the Federal Circuit’s ...
With less than two weeks before the long-awaited June 1, 2023 launch, the Unified Patent Court recently addressed two important issues in a set ...
The SEC adopted amendments to Form PF (the “Amendments”) on May 3, 2023. The Amendments include (i) new current reporting requirements for large ...
On May 5, 2023, the SEC filed a civil complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York against a ...
On April 27, 2023, Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed into law the “My Health My Data Act,” (the “Act”), beginning the ...
The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures has released the fourth and final beta version of the TNFD Framework. The fourth beta release is part ...
On May 3, the Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act passed its third reading in the Canadian House of Commons ...
On May 3, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) adopted new disclosure requirements1 regarding share repurchases. The new requirements include both quantitative ...
The Unified Patent Court and Unitary Patent system is set to launch on June 1, 2023, following years of preparation. While the new system is ...
On May 2, 2023, FDA issued a draft guidance document providing insights into the Agency’s approach to regulating decentralized clinical trials (“DCTs ...
Section 113 of the Dodd-Frank Act authorizes the Financial Stability Oversight Council (the “Council”) to subject a “nonbank financial company ...
On April 26, 2023, the EU Commission published its long-awaited proposals to revise the EU’s pharmaceutical legislation. The proposals, the largest reform ...
On Wednesday, May 3, 2023, Governor Kathy Hochul signed the New York State (“NYS”) budget for State Fiscal Year 2023–2024 into ...
On April 3, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) released a draft guidance document titled “Marketing Submission Recommendations for ...
The Unified Patent Court and Unitary Patent system is set to launch on June 1, 2023, following years of preparation. While the new system is ...
After many months of publicly teasing further anti-ESG action, Florida is poised to become the latest state to enact legislation limiting the consideration of ...
Calendar 2022 U.S. Conflict Minerals Rule filings are due on May 31. Although the substantive requirements have not changed since last year, there are ...
The landscape of government enforcement, private litigation, and federal and state regulation of digital assets, blockchain and related technologies is constantly evolving. Each quarter, Ropes ...
On March 2, 2023, the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) within the U.S. Department of Commerce added three affiliates of BGI ...