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Tips for Entering the Life Sciences Market in Brazil

For life sciences companies, Brazil’s market offers both an abundance of business opportunities and a myriad of on-the-ground regulatory compliance challenges for new entrants. Getting the market-entry strategy right will...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Commercial Division Says, “Nope, Not Enough” When Using Local Counsel to Establish Personal Jurisdiction

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Commercial transactions often involve parties from different states.  When a dispute arises between diverse parties, the question of whether a party can obtain personal jurisdiction over a defendant becomes critical.  This...more

Fish & Richardson

Federal Circuit Clarifies Venue in Hatch-Waxman Actions in Celgene v. Mylan

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The Hatch-Waxman Act provides a cause of action for infringement based on the submission of an abbreviated new drug application (ANDA) to FDA. 35 U.S.C. § 271(e)(2). Following the Supreme Court’s ruling in TC Heartland LLC v....more

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Securities Class Action Against Swiss-Based Company Dismissed On Forum Non Conveniens Grounds

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Securities Class Action Against Swiss-Based Company Dismissed On Forum Non Conveniens Grounds; Second Circuit Finds Strong Inference of “Conscious Recklessness” In Allegations And Reverses Dismissal of Securities Suit Against...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

FDA Announces That Domestic Inspections Will Resume

On July 10, 2020, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency) announced plans to resume domestic facility inspections following the March 2020 suspension of most foreign and domestic facility inspections as a result...more

Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

U.S. Supreme Court Clarifies Constitutional Limits on Specific Jurisdiction Over Foreign Defendants…Again

Since 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court has continued to roll back the expansion of personal jurisdiction by lower courts and has set more limitations on where a plaintiff can sue corporate defendants. We have watched this unfold...more

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Second Circuit: “C” is for Comity; Price Fixing Judgement Against Chinese Vitamin C Sellers Reversed

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Last week, in In re Vitamin C Antitrust Litigation, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (“Second Circuit”) vacated a $147 million jury award against Chinese vitamin C sellers Hebei Welcome Pharmaceutical Co. and...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

California Supreme Court Decision Could Allow for Greatly Expanded Personal Jurisdiction

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The California Supreme Court’s recent opinion on specific jurisdiction may have far-reaching consequences for future actions brought in the state. In the recently published opinion in Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior...more

Troutman Pepper

A Look at Tax Issues of the Life Sciences and Tech Industries

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Wolters Kluwer had the opportunity this past week to sit down with Pepper Hamilton LLP partners Todd Reinstein, Washington, D.C., and Joan Arnold, Philadelphia, to discuss current tax issues particularly relevant to the life...more

Carlton Fields

Expect Focus – International, Summer 2015

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In This Issue: - TTIP’s Impact on U.S. and EU Trade Relations - Proposed Innovation Box Legislation - Justice Department Recovers Nearly $6 Billion From False Claims Act Cases in 2014 - Rules...more

Saul Ewing LLP

New Jersey Rulings Allay Personal Jurisdiction Concerns Raised by Daimler and Goodyear

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Two judges in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey have denied motions to dismiss for personal jurisdiction in Hatch-Waxman litigations based on the defendants’ compliance with New Jersey’s foreign...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Is Your Company Prepared For The Potential Impacts Of The Stop Corporate Inversions Act of 2014

As Congress Seeks Additional Funding, Inversion Proposal Emerges - Throughout the past several weeks, Pfizer’s attempt to acquire AstraZeneca has garnered significant congressional and media attention. Pfizer, a U.S....more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Warning all Foreign Companies in China: Don’t be the next GlaxoSmithKline

The fact that GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has been on China’s radar for bribery is nothing new – the Chinese authorities instituted an investigation against the company in July 2013. What is new is that GSK’s former Vice President...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Does Motive Matter In Anti-Bribery And Anti-Corruption Enforcement?

Do the intentions behind enforcement of domestic or international anti-corruption laws matter? Or is ‘the law the law’ and it really does not matter what a government’s motives are in enforcing laws that it has on the books....more

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