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Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Food Venture Financing News – Weekly Issue No. 246

Food Venture Financing Trends - Bengaluru-based functional food startup Lo! Foods raised $3.5 million in a Series B funding round to enhance operational capabilities and launch new product lines....more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Food Venture Financing News – Weekly Issue No. 245

Food Venture Financing Trends - Ferrero, the maker of Nutella, is purchasing WK Kellog for $3.1 billion looking to grow their North American presence....more

J.S. Held

Beyond Safety & Effectiveness: Business Reasons to Prioritize Human Factors in Medical Device Design

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To err is human. We have short attention spans and get distracted easily. We have unreliable memories and forget. We have a limited ability to process information, and we overgeneralize rules-of-thumb to the wrong situations....more

Hogan Lovells

Reshoring EO aims to streamline permitting, approval, and oversight of US drug manufacturing

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On May 5, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order (EO) aiming to promote American-made prescription drugs (“Reshoring Manufacturing EO”). The EO directs federal agencies to eliminate regulatory hurdles,...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

2025 Perspectives in Private Equity: Health Care & Life Sciences

Private equity investors in health care and life sciences must navigate a complex and shifting landscape influenced by regulatory and policy changes and technological advancements. As private equity investments in the health...more

Knobbe Martens

Heading Towards an Optimistic Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) Resurgence in 2025?

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On January 16th, 2025, GT Medical Technologies, announced that it has raised $37 million in Series D financing round. The financing round was led by Evidity Health Capital and joined by Accelmed Partners. Current investors...more

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Key Takeaways from the 2025 JP Morgan Healthcare Conference

Several members of our firm’s life sciences team were on the ground at the 43rd Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco from January 13 to 16, 2025. It was an exciting and sunny four days, during which key...more

Ropes & Gray LLP

U.S. Private Equity Market Recap - January 2025

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U.S. PE deal activity: Deal activity was slightly down in 2024 with a 3% YoY decline, while deal value was up 14%. Transaction activity did not make the strong comeback dealmakers were hoping for in 2024 as investors...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

How Will the Cannabis World Look When Marijuana Is Rescheduled?

A few weeks ago, someone at a holiday party asked “Whitt, why doesn’t Budding Trends take on the weighty legal issues of the day and instead resort to cheap pop culture references and puns?” I thought about responding with a...more

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As the (Customs and Trade) World Turns: November 2024

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Welcome to the November 2024 issue of “As the (Customs and Trade) World Turns,” our monthly newsletter where we compile essential updates from the customs and trade world over the past month. We bring you the most recent and...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Health Policy: Expected Movements in the Lame Duck Session – November/December 2024

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Congress returned to Washington this week with just five weeks left in this year’s legislative calendar. With a Continuing Resolution (CR) that expires December 20, 2024, either a year-end spending package or a new Continuing...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Food Venture Financing News - Weekly Issue No. 168

Food Venture Financing Trends - Aigen, an agtech company that develops solar-powered robots for the agriculture industry, announced that it raised $12 million in its Series A financing....more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

What Big Tobacco's Cannabis Investments Mean for Market

For years, the cannabis industry has been the purview of entrepreneurs and those willing to operate in gray areas — those willing to take some measure of risk to recover the premium on that risk. As cannabis has become legal...more

Paul Hastings LLP

Finance in Five Minutes: Healthcare Finance Checkup

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While mergers and acquisitions, and attendant financings may not be at a blistering pace globally, the prognosis for deal activity in the healthcare sector remains healthy, in particular as the consolidation of providers, the...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Is CMS Ignoring the Realities of Biopharmaceutical Costs?

On March 15, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released guidance on the drug price negotiations provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The guidance contains CMS’s interpretations for a range of...more

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ESG Litigation Update: States’ Challenge to Department of Labor Investment Duties Rule Will Remain in Amarillo

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The past year has seen a new star become fixed in the judicial firmament. The US District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Amarillo Division, has found new prominence, most recently retaining a challenge 26 states...more

King & Spalding

Pharma Investment Trend Report: What We’re Watching in 2023

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2022 was a big year for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors. Novel technologies emerged at a rapid clip. The Food and Drug Administration (“FDA” or the “Agency”) approved over forty novel drugs and biologics and...more

Hogan Lovells

JPM2023 Trendspotting: investment insights for Innovative Medicines

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As the industry readies itself for the January 2023 pilgrimage to the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference (JPM) and Biotech Showcase in San Francisco, our market-leading life sciences and health care industry team has prepared...more

White & Case LLP

Strong Medicine: Using Investment Treaties to Mitigate Foreign Regulatory Risk in the Life Sciences

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The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the globalization of the life sciences industry, driving cross-border collaborations to develop urgently needed treatments, scale up manufacturing and distribution, and fill raw material...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Top Legal Issues Facing the Manufacturing Sector in 2022

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As the global economy faces the third year of the pandemic, manufacturers are no longer focused on figuring out when things will return to “normal.” Instead, they are applying lessons learned from the past few years to become...more

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Regulatory Insights for Life Sciences and Health Care Investments: Medical Device and Technology

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Investing in the life sciences industry without an understanding of the key regulatory factors that could determine a product’s success or failure could cost you millions of dollars....more

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5 Key Points on Retail, Specialty, Compounding, and Other Pharmacy Investment Opportunities

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The next in our series of posts sharing key takeaways from panels at the Healthcare & Life Sciences Private Equity and Lending Conference focuses on investing in pharmacy businesses. The pharmacy industry has been...more

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