On this episode of Women @ RopesTalk , hosted by IP transactions partner Megan Baca, capital solutions and private credit partner Alyson Gal interviews Marjorie Goux, chief legal officer at Rodan & Fields. Marjorie shares what it’s like to be CLO at a skincare and haircare company, along with how she prepared to take on the role. She looks back on the “multiple stops” in her legal career, including practicing law at medium- and big-sized firms in London and the U.S. before going in-house to ...
Dec 14, 2023•32 min
Wrapping up year one of the Better Way? podcast series, co-hosts Hui Chen and Zach Coseglia share their top themes from the year and discuss how these Better Ways inform the work they do to address organizational challenges. From embracing complexity and expertise to exploring empirical evidence and measuring culture, this episode packs the highlights of 2023 that you won’t want to miss!
Dec 13, 2023•41 min
In this installment of Ropes & Gray’s Alumni @ RopesTalk podcast, strategic transactions group co-leader Marko Zatylny interviews alum George Kopcsay, general counsel of Atlas Air. George was an associate at Ropes & Gray for five years before going in-house at Atlas, where he has been for 13 years. George talks about the experience of taking the company private in 2023 and the differences between being a lawyer at a public company versus a private one. In thinking about the role of a cor...
Dec 12, 2023•17 min
On this episode of Ropes & Gray’s California Law for Asset Managers podcast series, asset management partner Catherine Skulan and counsel Colleen Meyer provide an overview of SB 54, a new California law intended to provide transparency with respect to the diversity of founders in which “venture capital companies” make venture capital investments. The law, while highly relevant for traditional venture capital funds, could implicate traditional private equity and other investment vehicles as w...
Dec 05, 2023•18 min
On this Ropes & Gray podcast, asset management partners Jason Kolman and Jessica Marlin are joined by Daren Moreira, a partner at Eversheds Sutherland, to discuss the NAIC’s updated Statement of Statutory Accounting Principles No. 26 (SSAP 26). They discuss the background of and guidance in SSAP 26, and its potential impact on rated note fund structures.
Nov 30, 2023•12 min
As popular as the phrase “Do the Right Thing” may be, defining the “Right Thing” can be quite a complex and even controversial exercise. On this episode of There Has to Be a Better Way? , NYU Professor Alison Taylor tackles the question of what it means for a business to do the right thing in today’s world, with multiple—and often conflicting—stakeholder expectations. She challenges some common notions such as “bring your whole self to work” and “courage to speak up” with deeper questions that w...
Nov 29, 2023•38 min
Welcome to the first installment of Ropes & Gray’s new podcast series, Controlling Opinions , which is focused on current trends and developments related to controlled substances that affect the health care and life sciences industries. In this inaugural episode, hear a cross-practice team of Ropes & Gray attorneys—Andrew O’Connor, Josh Oyster, Stephen Warnke, and Beth Weinman—discuss the controlled substances issues that have their attention, including the potential federal rescheduling...
Nov 20, 2023•18 min
Tune in to the fourth episode of Ropes & Gray's podcast series, The Data Day , brought to you by the firm’s data, privacy & cybersecurity practice. This series focuses on the day-to-day effects that data has on all of our lives as well as other exciting and interesting legal and regulatory developments in the world of data, and features a range of guests, including clients, regulators and colleagues. On this episode, hosts Fran Faircloth, a partner in Washington, D.C., and Edward Machin,...
Nov 16, 2023•26 min
On this fifth and final episode of Ropes & Gray’s Recent Trends & Developments in Health Care Joint Ventures podcast series, health care partner Stephanie Webster moderates a discussion with health care partners Brett Friedman and Ben Wilson on two alternative partnership models for health care joint ventures: clinically integrated networks and professional services agreement models. They look at how these two alternatives both compare and differ from a traditional joint venture partners...
Nov 16, 2023•26 min
This installment of Ropes & Gray’s podcast series Non-binding Guidance focuses on FDA’s recently issued draft guidance, “ Communications From Firms to Health Care Providers Regarding Scientific Information on Unapproved Uses of Approved/Cleared Medical Products – Questions and Answers .” In this episode, hear from Kellie Combs, Josh Oyster, and Sarah Blankstein, industry-leading attorneys from Ropes & Gray’s life sciences regulatory and compliance team, as they delve into FDA’s new draft...
Nov 14, 2023•24 min
On this episode of There Has to Be a Better Way? , co-hosts Hui Chen and Zach Coseglia go it alone in a one-to-one talk designed specifically for ethics and compliance professionals. In past episodes, guests have hailed the power of storytelling, and this week, Hui and Zach share personal stories—and learnings—from their decades of experience in the world of corporate ethics and compliance. Topics include: earning a seat at the table through relationship-building and diplomacy; why complication ...
Nov 08, 2023•38 min
On this episode of the R&G Tech Studio , asset management partner Melissa Bender sits down with litigation & enforcement partner Helen Gugel to discuss the evolving regulatory landscape for digital assets, cryptocurrencies, blockchain and related technologies, and potential impacts for clients operating in this space.
Nov 07, 2023•14 min
On this fourth episode of Ropes & Gray’s Recent Trends & Developments in Health Care Joint Ventures podcast series, health care partner Brett Friedman discusses key regulatory considerations for payor and provider alignment models, including clinically integrated networks and vertical integration transactions, as well as approaches for mitigating risk in markets increasingly scrutinized by federal and state regulators.
Nov 02, 2023•20 min
This installment of Ropes & Gray’s podcast series Non-binding Guidance focuses on FDA’s proposed rule that would affirm the Agency’s position that laboratory developed tests (“LDTs”) are in vitro diagnostic products regulated as medical devices under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (“FDCA”). In this episode, hear from Greg Levine, Josh Oyster, and Beth Weinman, industry-leading attorneys from Ropes & Gray’s life sciences regulatory and compliance team based in Washington, D.C., ...
Oct 30, 2023•24 min
Business professor Daniel Beunza spent years as an observer on the trading floors of Wall Street, and documents his journey in his award-winning book Taking the Floor: Models, Morals, and Management in a Wall Street Trading Room . On this episode of There Has to Be a Better Way? , Dr. Beunza shares his surprising findings about ethics, morality, and leadership in these highly intense and competitive settings, and how his ethnographic method of “living with the natives” and “going with surprises”...
Oct 25, 2023•38 min
On this third episode of Ropes & Gray’s Recent Trends & Developments in Health Care Joint Ventures podcast series, health care partners Tim McCrystal and Adrianne Ortega discuss recent trends in partnerships between nonprofit and for-profit entities, as well as important business, structural, and legal issues for nonprofit/for-profit joint ventures.
Oct 19, 2023•15 min
On this episode of Ropes & Gray’s podcast series A Word for Our Sponsors , hosts Deb Lussier and Paul Van Houten, the co-leaders of the sponsor solutions practice, are joined by Ropes & Gray tax partner Kendi Ozmon as well as tax counsel Gil Ghatan to discuss a topic of increasing interest among fund sponsors: establishing a vehicle for implementing their philanthropic and charitable giving goals.
Oct 18, 2023•11 min
On this episode of There Has to Be a Better Way? , Shannon Kirk returns to the podcast to share “Better Ways” from multiple perspectives: As a thought leader on the application of machine learning and artificial intelligence in litigation and internal investigations, she highlights the importance of metrics as evidence of effectiveness; and as an award-winning author and lawyer, she explains why words and precision matter.
Oct 11, 2023•32 min
Following up on Ropes & Gray’s recent article in Institutional Real Estate Americas , on this podcast, private capital transactions partner Sarah Schaffer Raux joins real estate and investment transactions partner David Kaye and counsel Pete Scherer to discuss the emerging trend of institutional real estate investors looking beyond traditional real estate joint ventures to create expanded relationships with their operating partners, often through the use of hybrid investment structures....
Oct 10, 2023•12 min
On this second episode of Ropes & Gray’s Recent Trends & Developments in Health Care Joint Ventures podcast series, health care partner Ben Wilson discusses five key strategies to set up a health care joint venture for success. He talks about the important and everchanging regulatory requirements around these transactions, drafting tips, and key actions that stakeholders, principals, and businesspeople can take to ensure the success of their joint ventures.
Oct 05, 2023•18 min
On this episode of There Has to Be a Better Way? , co-hosts Zach Coseglia and Hui Chen interview Nitish Upadhyaya, director of behavioral insights at R&G Insights Lab. Nitish is a lawyer and behavioral scientist whose research has focused on how humans interact with bots. Based on Nitish’s findings, the three discuss how technology might complement human strengths in the ethics and compliance world. They also touch on human-centered design and Nitish’s revolutionary way of thinking about eff...
Sep 27, 2023•40 min
Introducing A Word for Our Sponsors , a new podcast series brought to you by the sponsor solutions group at Ropes & Gray. The podcast spotlights private equity leaders and the issues that matter most to our sponsor clients. On this first episode, hosts Deb Lussier and Paul Van Houten, the co-leaders of the sponsor solutions practice, are joined by Kase Jubboori, deputy general counsel and co-head of tax at Bain Capital, for a wide-ranging conversation on how Kase approaches important interna...
Sep 26, 2023•28 min
On this episode of the R&G Tech Studio , data, privacy & cybersecurity co-lead Rohan Massey sits down with technology, media & telecommunications co-lead Ed Black to discuss how he goes into crisis mode when his clients are hit with a ransomware attack and how he works in tandem with forensics experts, communications and crisis response teams to understand the scope of the breach and its impact on clients.
Sep 25, 2023•16 min
We are pleased to introduce a new Ropes & Gray podcast series, Recent Trends & Developments in Health Care Joint Ventures . With increased regulatory scrutiny by state and federal regulators of mergers and acquisitions in the health care industry, joint ventures present a valuable alternative to traditional acquisition strategies for expansion and diversification of services, access to capital, and deployment of technological, business, and management resources. The series will examine r...
Sep 21, 2023•15 min
On this episode of Women @ RopesTalk , hosted by health care partner Christine Moundas, health care counsel Leslie Thornton interviews Kelly Gold, chief financial officer of CAMP4 Therapeutics, a Boston-based biotechnology company. Kelly opens up about what keeps her up at night as CFO of an early-stage, venture-backed company on the path to drug development. She describes her career journey from one quantitative field to the next, starting as a mechanical engineer, then moving to Wall Street an...
Sep 19, 2023•24 min
On this episode of There Has to Be a Better Way? , co-hosts Zach Coseglia and Hui Chen are joined by actor and activist Julia Ormond, founder and president of Asset Campaign, a nonprofit organization working to ensure human rights by driving supply chain transparency and empowering individuals to make informed purchasing, investment and employment decisions. Julia discusses the “aha” moment that inspired her work on human trafficking and outlines a broad strategy for how policies and businesses ...
Sep 13, 2023•34 min
On this Ropes & Gray podcast, real estate partner Sally Davis and asset management partner Eric Requenez discuss some of the key similarities and differences between terms in real estate joint ventures and terms in real estate funds, including considerations for investors and practitioners in the space who are looking to invest through either of these structures or any of the various “hybrid” models found somewhere in between.
Sep 12, 2023•18 min
Fund sponsors are increasingly turning to NAV (net asset value) financing to meet a variety of needs and objectives. On this podcast, Ropes & Gray finance counsel Patricia Teixeira is joined by managing director and partner of Fund Finance Partners Anastasia Kaup to discuss key terms and negotiating points in NAV credit facilities, market trends, and predictions for the future.
Sep 08, 2023•22 min
On this Ropes & Gray podcast, Jeff Katz, the head of the firm's shareholder engagement practice, and Bryan Lowrance, an associate in the same practice, discuss how active asset managers are successfully—and often quietly—engaging with public companies to increase value and improve corporate governance. On this episode, Jeff and Bryan discuss what they mean by “activism for non-activists” and provide a framework for successful constructive engagement.
Sep 07, 2023•16 min
On this inaugural episode of Ropes & Gray’s podcast series, Carbon Talk , asset management partner Jeremy Liabo and associate Anne Fox provide listeners with an introduction to the global carbon markets. Throughout their discussion, Jeremy and Anne outline the chief differences between mandatory carbon markets, on the one hand, and voluntary carbon markets, on the other hand. As part of this overview, Jeremy and Anne address a variety of topics including the different types of carbon “credit...
Sep 06, 2023•10 min
