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Antitrust and Competition Life Sciences Quarterly Update Q2 2024

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To date, 2024 has not yet seen the type of mega-merger (Pfizer/Seagen) or level of agency enforcement (Sanofi/Maze or Amgen/Horizon) as 2023. But two notable investigations — one still active — show the Federal Trade...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

[Event] Biotech Summit 2024 - October 9th - 10th, Boston, MA

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

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Life Sciences and Health Care Companies Under the Competition Microscope: New Cross-Government Initiatives Seek to Expose...

U.S. antitrust enforcers launched a flurry of initiatives in the first half of 2024 to identify and prevent antitrust and other violations in life sciences and health care. Among these are two cross-agency Requests for...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Insights – June 2024

Explore the unique considerations for mergers and acquisitions in the AI sector, the return of IPOs, the implications of new Supreme Court decisions and other developments in this edition of Skadden’s quarterly Insights....more

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Healthcare Experts See Promising Signs of Rebound in M&A and IPO Activity

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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

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

2024 Top-of-Mind Issues for Life Sciences Companies

As we reflect on 2023 and make predictions for 2024, it is remarkable the number of significant events occurring this past year that will be impactful for the activities of the life sciences industry going forward. Although...more

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Key Takeaways From the 2024 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference

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Ballard Spahr attorneys from the firm’s Life Sciences and Health Care Industry Teams were on the ground for the 42nd Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference (JPM24) from January 7-10. While still less crowded than...more

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Transaction Trends in Life Sciences

In November, we were delighted to once again host our annual European Health & Life Sciences Symposium in Paris. The event attracted a large number of healthcare professionals, investors and dealmakers to the Shangri-La Hotel...more

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The Interplay: Key Decisions at the Intersection of Antitrust & Life Sciences - October 2023

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This marks the second issue of WilmerHale’s The Interplay: Key Decisions at the Intersection of Antitrust & Life Sciences, a monthly bulletin that will highlight developments in the antitrust and life sciences space. We will...more

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Antitrust & Competition Life Sciences Quarterly Update - Q2 2023

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The second quarter saw significant enforcement and dealmaking in the life sciences space. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced its attempt to block Amgen/Horizon, the first such challenge to a life science transaction...more

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Illumina-ting AG Arguments in Support of Biotech Merger

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A group of 12 Republican AGs filed an amicus brief asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to allow a merger to proceed between DNA sequencing company Illumina, Inc. and multi-cancer early detection test maker...more

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The Life Sciences Report – June 2023

This latest issue features an article on Enliven Therapeutics’ reverse merger with Imara and concurrent financing, including an interview with Enliven co-founder and CEO Sam Kintz; a piece on trends in digital health...more

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Antitrust & Competition Life Sciences Quarterly Update - Q1 2023

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Our prior updates covered how FTC enforcement activity largely proceeded “as usual” during 2022 in the life sciences industry, with large pharmaceutical players buying or licensing promising, but still risky, assets from...more

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Antitrust & Competition Life Sciences 2022 Year In Review

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M&A activity in the life sciences space proceeded largely as usual in 2022, with most transactions receiving expected levels of agency scrutiny and closing in the normal course despite aggressive rhetoric from new leadership...more

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Cooley’s 2022 Life Sciences M&A Year in Review

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Although 2022 saw a general decline in M&A activity in the life sciences industry compared to 2021’s frenetic pace (when deal volume was up 52% from 2020), life sciences deal flow in 2022 on balance remained strong despite...more

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Antitrust & Competition Life Sciences Quarterly Update - Q3 2022

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The third quarter in the life sciences space showed that business is generally proceeding as usual, with large pharma players successfully acquiring or licensing in clinical stage assets without running into antitrust delays....more

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Antitrust + Competition Life Sciences Quarterly Update - Q2 2022

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​​​​​​​Although the second quarter did not feature any life sciences enforcement action by the FTC, there was plenty of news in and around the space. The FTC held a detailed “virtual workshop” as part of its pharmaceutical...more

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Seizing Opportunity: The post-pandemic future of US life sciences M&A 2022

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As we predicted in the previous edition of this report, 2021 turned out to be a very strong year indeed for US life sciences dealmaking, marked by high transaction values and volumes as the industry continued on its...more

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Antitrust + Competition Life Sciences Quarterly Update - Q1 2022

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Despite the aggressive rhetoric, the change in the leadership and composition at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) did not result in more enforcement in 2021. As the calendar turned to 2022, the FTC seems to be stepping...more

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DOJ and FTC Start Joint Effort To “Strengthen Enforcement Against Illegal Mergers”

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AGENCIES APPEAR POISED TO TARGET TECH, LIFE SCIENCES AND PRIVATE EQUITY TRANSACTIONS - U.S. Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) Chair Lina Khan and the head of the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”), Antitrust Division,...more

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Alert: President Biden’s Executive Order on Competition: Three Important Takeaways for Tech and Life Sciences Companies

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On July 9, President Joe Biden issued an executive order on “Promoting Competition in the American Economy.” With 72 initiatives and directives by more than a dozen federal agencies, the order seeks to aggressively “reduce...more

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Illuminating Vertical Merger Challenges: FTC Challenges Illumina’s Reacquisition of a Nascent Company it Founded

After a bit of hiatus on aggressively challenging vertical mergers, regulators both here in the United States and abroad have resumed initiated actions to challenge vertical mergers. Traditionally a difficult lift for the...more

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[Webinar] Antitrust today: Emerging issues affecting the life sciences industry - March 12th, 9:00 am - 10:00 am PST

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Join the Hogan Lovells Antitrust and Competition team on Friday, March 12, 2021 to discuss hot antitrust topics in the life sciences industry, including: - What life sciences companies should expect with respect to...more

Jones Day

Vital Signs: Digital Health Law Update | Summer 2020

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Note From the Editors - With this Summer 2020 issue of Vital Signs, we take a moment to again applaud the remarkable actions of all the health care and life science organizations around the globe working tirelessly on our...more

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Ahead of the pack: US M&A 2019: US dealmakers steer a steady path through global headwinds

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As the rest of the world backed away from the deal table, confident US corporates continued buying businesses—especially in the life sciences and TMT sectors, and particularly in the domestic market. US dealmakers had a...more

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