Wilson Sonsini tops Life Sciences Law Firm Index for 2nd straight year
The Life Sciences Law Firm Index identifies the most active and relevant firms for life science companies.
Finding a way through a tight deal space
Leaders of WilmerHale’s life sciences practice share trends they see regarding acquisitions and initial public offerings.
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Transforming Patient Care: The Role of AI-Powered Assistants
The progress in artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping patient care, across various dimensions, from facilitating faster discharge to curating treatment plans and suggesting lifestyle changes.
Navigating the Life Science M&A Savannah
Still recovering from a market correction two years ago, and with a scarcity of attractive targets and ongoing macroeconomic uncertainty, the life sciences dealmaking space is in a state of flux.
Collaboration at Fenwick & West Steers Firm through complex deals
After a relatively slow 2016 for life sciences deals...
Newly united Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer surveys changed life sciences deal environment
Last year proved a slow one for dealmaking in the life sciences space. But that didn’t stop two of the major legal players in it from consummating one themselves: In November, Arnold & Porter and Kaye Scholer agreed to merge, bringing together two formidable healthcare practices.
Insurance Companies Can Find Relief During Delay of Loss Reimbursement
Lake Whillans is providing financial relief to insurance companies that offered plans on the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance exchanges and are now impaired by the government’s delay in making promised so-called “risk corridor payments.”
The Funding Model for Cancer Innovation is Broken — We Can Fix It
Closing cancer health equity gaps require medical breakthroughs made possible by new funding approaches.
The Personal Touch In Patent Prosecution
When it comes to fighting disease, Michael Shuster takes things personally...
Aggregate Spend Goes Global
This independent editorial series on healthcare and the law is sponsored by Lake Whillans, a distressed venture capital and litigation finance firm that helps companies facing litigation or arbitration. As states began to jump onto the pharmaceutical regulation bandwagon around the turn of the century, Porzio Bromberg & Newman brought John Ohoro on to help clients sift […]
Friends and Family (Offices) Step in to Funding Drought
Not too long ago, it didn’t take much for someone with an idea for a new medical device to rake in the early-stage funding. Investors have been a bit more discerning over the past decade, to say the least, and by and large they remain so, according to K&L Gates’ Michael Hedge, who’s been around long enough to […]
M&A: The Last Refuge for Biotechs Seeking Funding
These are tough times in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries: Funding is drying up, investors are fleeing the space, the IPO door is pretty firmly shut, valuations are dropping, activists are lurking and the headlines are anything but kind. But when the going gets tough, the tough consider strategic alternatives. Stuart Falber and Belinda Juran, […]
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Market Trends to Watch for Health Systems and Their Specialty Pharmacies
The future looks bright for the integrated specialty pharmacy model – for health systems, providers, and most importantly, for patients.
Wilson Sonsini, WilmerHale and Cooley top new Life Sciences Law Firm Index
The life sciences — particularly in biotechnology and pharmaceuticals — are among the very few industries where companies insist on industry-specialized advisors. The complex life cycle of a life sciences product demands a broad range of legal and business expertise across many practice specialties, combined with deep scientific knowledge. The stakes are increasing particularly when […]
Meet the Mt. Rushmore of healthcare corporate venture capital
Throughout the year Lake Whillans, with the help of MedCity News, has explored two key issues for healthcare investors and entrepreneurs: trust and reliability. We’ve helped bring to light some harrowing war stories of partnerships gone bad. We’ve also asked healthcare leaders in the trenches about the best ways to operate in the modern healthcare […]
Healthcare’s corporate investors are like backup quarterbacks (proceed with caution)
Everyone loves the backup quarterback because they’ve never played a down. But once those backups play, the sports analogy goes, and they are almost always worse than the starter. Are digital health VCs the backup quarterbacks of healthcare investing? Rightfully, there’s a lot of excitement about corporate venture’s increasing prominence in healthcare. But don’t get […]
McKesson, Blue Cross top digital health’s most trusted corporate VCs
Part II in our research examining which corporate venture capitalists you can trust and rely on.
Startups: Know when you’re valuable, know when you’re not – and remember to take notes
If you run a startup, do these three rules resonate?