Air Bridges and Travel Corridors: Regional Travel Agreements in the Face of COVID-19
Blackstone Closes Life Sciences Fund With $4.6 Billion
Blackstone has announced the closing of its inaugural life sciences fund with $4.6 billion of total capital commitments.
The company stated that the fund, Blackstone Life Sciences V, is the largest life sciences private fund raised to date.
Blackstone Life Sciences has three main investment strategies: collaborations with established companies, late-stage product financings, and growth investments in emerging companies.
Blackstone Life Sciences has already committed nearly $1 billion from this fund to investments in Alnylam,…
Don’t Buy a Private Jet with the Proceeds of Your Medicaid Fraud
As whistleblower lawyers and former prosecutors, we have seen a lot. One of the most enjoyable aspects of both of those roles is the wide (and wild) variety of “fact patterns” that present themselves in the cases we have handled over the decades. A recent Medicaid home health care fraud prosecution offers some lessons to would-be criminals in what not to do.
After a while, one notices how cases have similar patterns but also their…
Aged, ill, and injured get shabby treatment at ‘care’ facilities across country
FDA to Resume Domestic Inspections with New Safety Measures after Temporary Pause Due to COVID-19 Health and Safety Concerns
Reed Smith hosts July 16 life sciences virtual roundtable on “Deal making in a post-COVID world”
While the life sciences sector has proven more resilient than most, COVID-19 has undoubtedly caused a dramatic slowdown in deal activity globally across industries. Please join Reed Smith and a panel of strategic, private equity, and venture capital leading deal makers for an engaging discussion on the impact COVID-19 has had on deal making in the life sciences sector, lessons learned, and their perspectives on deal making and deal trends in the sector in a…
COVID-19 Update: FDA Inspections Signal Resumption of Government Enforcement Efforts
On July 10, 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it would resume domestic on-site inspections beginning the week of July 20. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the FDA suspended inspections of facilities in March “to help slow the spread of the virus and help flatten the curve of the COVID-19 pandemic.” To determine the timing and locations of inspections, in accordance with the White House Guidelines for Opening Up America Again,…
Parens patriae – Permitting chemotherapy for child where parents decline to consent.
Re Ryder [2020] NSWSC 895 (available on Caselaw) came before the Court on the application of a hospital and the Minister for Health, as the parents of a young boy did not wish t to consent to the next step in his treatment – six cycles of chemotherapy which were unanimously recommended by his treating doctor, supported by collegial consultation among other specialists in the field including from overseas, and by a formal second opinion.
The parents did not…
Employer Collection of COVID-19 Data and Employee Privacy
The following post is adapted from an article written by Fox Rothschild attorneys Wayne Pinksone and Lucy Li, available here.
OSHA recently published guidance for “nonessential businesses” that are intending to reopen and allow their employees to return to work. This guidance is intended to supplement the U.S. Department of Labor and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ existing Guidance on Preparing Workplaces for COVID-19 and the White House’s Guidelines for Opening up America …
NCAA Division III Approves Blanket Student-Athlete COVID-19 Waivers for 2020-21 Seasons
A week after the NCAA Division III Membership Committee encouraged institutions to make the best decisions for their student-athletes’ “happiness, health and safety,” the Division’s Administrative Committee has provided some administrative relief for institutions should the ongoing impact of COVID-19 affect 2020-21 seasons of athletic competition.
Two blanket waivers have been approved for all Division III sports:
All student-athletes whose sports fail to complete more than 50% of their maximum contests/dates of competition due to…