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On Friday, February 3, 2023, a securities litigation team from Freshfields’ Silicon Valley office filed a brief in the United States Supreme Court in support of defendants in Slack Technologies LLC, e...
Author(s): Boris Feldman, Doru Gavril, Rebecca Lockert, Olivia Rosen
In the Alan B. Levenson Keynote speech this week at the 50th anniversary Securities Regulation Institute (“SRI”), SEC Commissioner Caroline A. Crenshaw suggested a number of potential reforms to Regul...
Author(s): Sarah Solum, Pamela Marcogliese, Scott Blumenkranz, Shira Oyserman, Jennifer Burrow
We anticipate a year of reserved optimism in the life sciences industry for 2023. Despite uncertain financial markets and pricing challenges in the US, we expect an uptick in transactional activity, w...
Author(s): Adam Golden, Harriet Hanks
For over a decade, industry watchdogs, patient groups and various lawmakers have been calling for drug pricing reform—initially with little success. 2023, however, may be the year in which supporters ...
Author(s): Adam Golden, Tanny Kang, Emily Parfitt, Kristen Riemenschneider
We're pleased to announce Freshfields' 2022 De-SPAC Debrief: A comprehensive review of all 102 de-SPAC transactions that closed in 2022. 2022, a challenging year for SPACs, was also the 2nd biggest ye...
Author(s): Michael Levitt, Valerie Ford Jacob, Sebastian Fain
On Monday, the Supreme Court dismissed as improvidently granted the writ of certiorari of In re Grand Jury, a case about the scope of attorney-client privilege, which we wrote about earlier this month...
Author(s): David Livshiz, Jennifer Loeb, Scott Eisman
On January 23, 2023, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced its annual updates to the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act reportability thresholds and Clayton Act Section 8 enforcement thresholds as ...
Author(s): Bruce McCulloch, Meytal McCoy, Charles Ramsey
The 41st Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, held in-person for the first time in three years, was a tale of two cities – marked by, on the one hand, unprecedented downpour in the region and ind...
Author(s): Sora Park, Emily Parfitt, Tanny Kang, Adam Golden, Vinita Kailasanath, Kristen Riemenschneider
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