Daily Compliance News: June 17, 2025, The JBS Goes Public Edition
Exploring the Administration's Regulatory Impact on Private Equity — PE Pathways Podcast
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Raising Capital 101: A Securities Podcast - What is a Public Offering?
Best Practices for Preparing Your Company for Exit
Tech Debt is Common. What does it mean for IPO readiness from a cybersecurity perspective?
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Raising Capital 101: A Securities Podcast - What Makes it a Securities Offering?
A Day in the Life of a Financial Services General Counsel - The Consumer Finance Podcast
Has the SPAC Bubble Burst? Part 2: The SEC’s New Rules
Has the SPAC Bubble Burst? Lessons Learned From the Early Days of SPAC Mania
Fast Track to IPO: Why Are Series A Startups Snatching Topflight CFOs?
The Brave New Frontier of Securing D&O Insurance for SPACs and deSPACs
Venture Capital: Global State of the Market
Nota Bene Episode 95: Mapping Capital Markets and Securities Enforcement in the Current COVID-19 Moment with Jamie Mercer and John Stigi
Compliance and Coronavirus-Michael Beber on M&A, IPOs and SPACs During and After Covid-19
What Is a Direct Listing?
Compliance into the Weeds-Episode 85-Professor Coffee on the Dearth of IPOs
Life Sciences Quarterly: A View From Washington: What to Expect From the SEC
Dual-track IPOs
FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 175-Debra Bruce on new methods for law firm funding and its implications
Advanced Intellectual Property Strategies for Defending Your Life Sciences IPO
Life sciences capital markets in 2025 have been a mixed bag—some rays of light peeking through, but still, plenty of clouds for early-stage companies hoping to tap the public markets. After a long IPO drought, 2024 brought a...more
This latest edition features an interview with retiring longtime Wilson Sonsini IP partner Vern Norviel and articles on MedTech and pharma trends for 2025, the eligibility of life sciences companies for qualified small...more
The life sciences industry is well positioned for growth in 2025, fueled by strong investor interest and technological advancements, especially in AI. Life sciences venture capital (VC) funding and IPOs have picked up in...more
Wilson Sonsini’s inaugural Biotech Summit will address topics of critical importance to Biotech and Biopharmaceutical companies, including early and late-stage venture financing, partnering strategies, current and future AI...more
Heading into 2024, expectations for biotech venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) investments were low following two lackluster years, but as we wrap up Q1, those expectations have been turned on their head after a...more
In the second week of January, Goodwin and KPMG convened innovators, practitioners, regulators, and others for our annual symposium on the future of life sciences and healthcare. This marked the fifth year that Goodwin...more
Digital health is showing signs of life despite financial markets that seem determined to bring some of 2023’s volatility into the new year. Stocks are up and down, and bond yields are climbing. Inflation is proving stubborn,...more
For digital health startups, the first two months of this year were a welcome departure from 2022, when high inflation and other economic challenges caused investors to press on the brakes and proceed with caution....more
This report series examines quarterly trends in life sciences venture investment. Key findings for Q4 2022 include: • Deal value reached $7.1 billion in Q4 across 392 deals, bringing the 2022 annual total to $38.0 billion...more
This report series examines quarterly trends in life sciences venture investment. Key findings for Q2 2022 include: • The industry generated $8.8 billion in deal value across 362 deals in Q2, a material decline from Q1, as...more
Recent reporting by the Financial Times shows that valuations and funding for biotech companies has fallen significantly, as “just nine biotech companies have listed in the U.S. this year, raising a total of $1bn … almost 60...more
This edition of Orrick’s life sciences publication series breaks down the key drivers of venture investment in the life sciences industry during Q1 2022, which saw some disruptions following a record year in 2021. Key...more
The digital health sector emerged as a juggernaut during the COVID-19 pandemic, with almost $15 billion invested in privately-held digital health companies in 2020 and nearly $30 billion invested last year, according to our...more
In the technology sector, entrepreneurs are often told to “move fast and break things.” But breaking things is something that won’t work in healthcare, so, as an alternative, innovators may consider “moving fast and keeping...more
This edition of Orrick’s life sciences publication series reviews the key drivers of venture investment in the life sciences industry, which is proceeding at a record pace thus far in 2021. Key findings include: Investment...more
The life sciences sector will likely be one of the major drivers in what some analysts predict as the beginning of the largest economic expansion in recent history. ...more
In prior years, it was almost a foregone conclusion that promising digital health startups would be acquired by other companies before having the opportunity to debut on the public markets. However, that changed in 2019,...more
In this edition of Orrick’s series of life sciences publications, we offer a market update drawing on a variety of PitchBook datasets depicting macro trends in financing across the market, as well as a spotlight on any trends...more
Fenwick’s eighth annual Digital Health Investor Summit took place against the backdrop of strong and increasingly diverse investment markets, a focus on clinical validation of digital health tools, and a healthcare system...more
Life Beyond FDA Clearance or Approval: The Reimbursement Challenge - To medical device manufacturers, winning premarket approval or 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is only half the battle....more
The January IPO market produced 13 IPOs with gross proceeds of $1.24 billion, the first IPO not coming until mid-month. The last two days of January alone produced seven IPOs....more