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The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act ("CARES Act") provides significant financial assistance and support to hospitals and other health ...

The U.S. Departments of Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services have issued an amendment to the June 17, 2010 interim final rules on grandfathered health plan status for group health plans under the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act".

On September 8, 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a False Claims Act (FCA) case in the Central District of California against Reliance Medical Systems, two related distributors (Apex Medical Technologies and Kronos Spinal Technologies), and several of their physician owners, based on the theory that investment returns from these physician-owned distributors (PODs) were unlawful kickbacks.

On January 21, 2015, the Supreme Court in Hana Financial, Inc. v. Hana Bank, No. 13-1211, unanimously held that whether different versions of a trademark may be "tacked" for purposes of determining priority is a jury question.

Kat Saunders Gregor, Ropes & Gray tax partner and co-founder of the firm's tax controversy group, discusses the OECD's digital tax proposal as well as actions being taken by several countries...

The settlement papers detail a scheme in which senior Petrobras executives inflated the cost of infrastructure projects by deliberately overpaying its largest contractors.

The China Food and Drug Administration ("CFDA") recently announced several draft rules, most notably, the Draft Amendment of the Provisions for Drug Registration (also known as the Drug Registration Rules, DRR) and the Draft Administrative Regulations on the Review and Approval of Drug Contract Manufacturing ("Draft Contract Manufacturing Rules), which will significant impact the pharmaceutical industry. The CFDA is soliciting public comments on both Rules through early December, 2013.

On January 10, 2018, the China Food and Drug Administration announced the implementation of the Technical Guidelines Governing Acceptance of Medical Device Clinical Data from Foreign Studies.

The State Food and Drug Administration recently announced a set of technical guidelines for switching prescription drugs to over-the-counter drugs.

The Council of the European Union has, on 1 December 2014, published a provisional version of a press release announcing its decision not to object to the adoption by the Commission of a regulation on the notification of significant net short positions in sovereign debt.

Many would have thought that potential UK public to private activity would have remained subdued given the regulatory framework implemented following Kraft/Cadbury and the macro headwinds of high

On 16 October 2019, the Bank of England ("BoE") and Financial Conduct Authority ("FCA") published a joint report on the use of machine learning ...

The UK government announced on November 28, 2016 that it will proceed to ratify the Unified Patent Court Agreement.

Colleen Conry, Ropes & Gray government enforcement partner, provides insights on what to expect with enforcement activity under the Trump administration and a Jeff Sessions led Department of Justice.

On December 1, 2014, the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission granted no-action relief to Whole Foods Market regarding its request to omit a shareholder proposal from its proxy materials pursuant to Rule 14a-8(i)(9) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

On June 12, 2015, the SEC published a Request for Comment (the "Request") seeking public comment on topics related to the SEC's oversight of the listing and trading of exchange-traded products ("ETPs") on national securities exchanges.

Data as of December 31, 2016 must be submitted no later than March 3, 2017.

On December 18, 2020, just over one year after proposed regulations were released, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Department of the Treasury (Treasury)