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Anatomy of a Deal: Good Things Come in Small (and Very Complicated) Packages
Acorda is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing therapies that restore function and improve the lives of people with neurological disorders. Acorda recently completed the acquisition of Biotie Therapies, a...Read more
Jane Wasman
President, International & General Counsel, Acorda Therapeutics, USA
Andrew Mayer
Vice President, Legal, Acorda Therapeutics, USA
Innovative Programs in Technology Transfer: An Overview of Cedars-Sinai’s Technology Transfer International Program and Its Complementary Diagnostic Development Unit, 3rd Street Diagnostics
Technology transfer offices at nonprofit academic medical centers face many challenges in their mission to protect and commercialize the intellectual property developed at their institutions. To address these challenges and...Read more
Alexander Chai
Assistant Legal Counsel, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, USA
Nirdesh Gupta Ph.D.
Director of IP Portfolio Management & Licensing, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, USA
James Lau
Singapore
Collaborative Privacy and Security Programs and the Symbiosis They Can Create
The value of business and human information has increased exponentially, and those who steal and defraud have become more creative and savvy. In our electronic world, machines conduct transactions without...Read more
Marilyn Hanzal
Associate General Counsel, The University of Chicago Medical Center, USA
Legal Recommendations Regarding Labor and Commercial Law Legal Operations in Spain
Finally, it appears to be that though slowly, the economic recovery has arrived to Spain. The crisis that hit the Country in 2008 seems to be water under the bridge,...Read more
Enrique Ceca
Partner, Ceca Magán Abogados, Spain
Isaac Millán
Chief Legal Counsel, Quirón Salud, Spain
Invasion of Privacy in the Context of an Investigation: Does it Render Evidence Inadmissible in Canadian Civil Proceedings?
As information becomes an ever-increasingly valuable commodity and, some would argue, as personal information becomes the most highly valued subset of that commodity, organizations are becoming all too familiar with...Read more
Tamara Hunter
Associate Counsel, DLA Piper (Canada), Canada
Invasion of Privacy in the Context of an Investigation: Does it Render Evidence Inadmissible in Canadian Civil Proceedings?
As information becomes an ever-increasingly valuable commodity and, some would argue, as personal information becomes the most highly valued subset of that commodity, organizations are becoming all too familiar with...Read more
Alexis Kerr
General Counsel, Fraser Health Authority, Canada
Avoiding Death by Governance: Taking the Governance, Risk and Compliance Frameworks to the next level
Contemporary governance, risk and compliance (GRC) principles advocate the shift from a silo approach to managing governance, risk and compliance to better rationalize the direct relationship between a particular risk,...Read more
John Cowell
General Counsel & Company Secretary, Healthdirect Australia, Australia
Optimising Value from the In-house Legal Function
As organisations face increasing regulation, complexity and globalisation without corresponding increases in resources, the structure, management and resourcing of the organisation’s legal department becomes ever more important. In-house legal teams...Read more
Claudine Boast
Commercial Counsel, Spectris, UK
The AstraZeneca Competition Case: Patent Strategies Constituting Abuse of Dominance
On 6 December 2012, the Court of Justice of the European Union affirmed that AstraZeneca abused its dominant position by engaging in certain intellectual property strategies aimed at protecting its...Read more
Bart Goddyn
Senior Legal Counsel, TiGenix , Belgium
The Misuse of the FCA to Enforce cGMP (Current Good Manufacturing Practice) Violations
Since the civil False Claims Act (“FCA”) was amended in 1986, the statute has evolved into a seemingly limitless weapon for enforcing other statutes and regulations applicable to every industry...Read more
Kyle Faget
Compliance Counsel, Global Compliance, Boston Scientific Corporation, USA