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Healthcare & Life Sciences Insights

Discover Latham’s latest insights into the commercial, regulatory, and legal developments shaping the global healthcare and life sciences landscape.

Latham’s cross-disciplinary team delivers insightful, practical guidance and sophisticated representation to a full spectrum of healthcare and life sciences companies across the globe, on every type of transaction or dispute a company may face.

Podcasts & Webcasts

Alex Kelly and Paul Kukish
January 16, 2026

Latham & Watkins M&A Leaders on the ‘Year of the Mega Deal’

Latham partners Alex Kelly and Paul Kukish, Global Co-Chairs of the firm’s M&A and Private Equity Practice, discuss the surge in global mega deal activity that propelled Latham to the top spot in 2025 M&A and private equity league tables and what’s shaping the deal landscape for 2026.

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June 06, 2025

Drug Pricing: Takeaways From the MDMA Annual Meeting

One of the country’s largest medical innovation and policy conferences recently concluded in Washington, D.C. Join the Latham team to discuss takeaways from the meeting, including regulatory changes and compliance hot topics.

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March 12, 2025

Drug Pricing: FDA in the Age of Executive Orders and DOGE

The Department of Government Efficiency, Trump executive orders, and a recent Office of Management and Budget memorandum are making drastic changes at FDA. The Latham team discusses the potential impacts on FDA approval and enforcement activities, including with respect to novel tobacco and nicotine products.

Recognition

Overpayment

amounts that a person or entity receives or retains to which the person is not entitled. The ACA requires Medicare and Medicaid Providers, Suppliers, and other entities to report and return any overpayment of Medicare or Medicaid funds within 60 days of identifying the overpayment or face potential False Claims Act liability.

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Sequestration

automatic, across the board budget cuts in the amount of US$1.2 trillion over nine years enacted as part of the Budget Control Act of 2011 that took effect in 2013 when Congress could not agree on a plan to reduce the deficit. Sequestration included aggregate reductions of Medicare payments to Providers at 2% per fiscal year.

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Yates Memo

named after author Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, the memo formally titled “Individual Accountability for Corporate Wrongdoing” emphasized the Department of Justice’s focus on holding individual corporate executives accountable for corporate wrongdoing. The memo set forth six steps to reinforce the Department of Justice’s pursuit of individual wrongdoing.

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Rational Drug Design

the process of discovering new Drugs based on knowledge of a Biological Target. Generally, a Molecule associated with a disease is identified and assessed, then a drug Molecule is designed to inhibit or promote certain reactions in an organism to respond to the disease.

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Group Model HMO

an HMO contracting for professional services with a single multi-specialty physician group practice or network of group practices that are closely related to but legally separate from the HMO. The contracting relationship is typically substantially (or totally) exclusive.

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