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Akin Offices
Robert S. Strauss Tower
2001 K Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20006-1037
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
United States
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Nathan Brown
Work Department
Partner; Health
Position
Drawing upon his 20+ years of diverse health care industry and governmental experience, Nate provides clients with strategic, practical advice on cutting-edge regulatory, compliance and policy matters. He has worked extensively in the FDA regulatory field and on coverage and reimbursement matters, allowing him to make connections across disciplines and take a multifaceted, creative approach to advising clients. Nate is a leading authority in the regulation of medical devices, particularly medical software, digital health and diagnostics. He has served in prominent roles at FDA and on the Senate HELP Committee. He is outside counsel to a broad cross section of the most innovative and influential entities in medical technologies, including the most well-established device and diagnostics companies, leading academic medical centers, visionary start-ups, digital technology companies newly entering health care and the leading trade association for the device industry. He has played an active role on behalf of clients in shaping many recent legislative reforms for medical technologies.
To learn more about Nate, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/nathan-a-brown.html
Career
Leads the firm’s FDA Practice; Associate Chief Counsel, Office of Chief Counsel, FDA; Senior Counsel, Office of the Associate Commissioner for Regulatory Affairs, FDA; Counsel, Senate HELP Committee.
Memberships
Member, Food and Drug Law Journal Editorial Advisory Board. FDA Alumni Association.
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- International trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Government > Government relations
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- International trade > Trade remedies and trade policy
Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Industry focus > Education
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Industry focus > Native American law
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Government > Government contracts
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- International trade > CFIUS
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Industry focus > Sport
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization