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03.10.2024 | Navigating Change: Leadership Shifts and Financial Moves in the Legal and Commodities Sectors | In the ever-evolving landscape of business, leadership changes and financial maneuvers can signal new directions. Recently, two significant developments emerged from Scotland and the United States, showcasing how firms adapt to challenges a... |
02.10.2024 | Hartree Partners And Sprague Closes $662.5 Million Credit Facility | Hartree Partners and subsidiary Sprague Operating Resources announced the closing of a $662.5 million senior secured acquisition credit facility. This three-year facility—which has two one-year extension options—was built to support Hartree... |
01.10.2024 | Scots Law Firm Burness Paull Appoints New Managing Partner | Burness Paull, the Scotland-based independent law firm, has appointed Mark Ellis as its new managing partner, working alongside Peter Lawson who will continue as chair.
Ellis brings considerable management experience to the role, having led... |
04.09.2024 | Navigating the Skies: The Future of Drones and Local Airports | The airspace is changing. Drones are no longer just toys; they are tools. They promise efficiency, innovation, and new opportunities. Meanwhile, local airports face challenges that could reshape their futures. The juxtaposition of these two... |
02.09.2024 | Commercial UAV Expo to Bring Thousands of Commercial Drone Professionals to Las Vegas, Sept. 3-5. | Outdoor Flying Demonstrations
More than 3,500 professionals from around the world expected to attend
LAS VEGAS, Sept. 2, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- More than 3,500 commercial drone professionals from more than 60 countries will gather at Co... |
28.08.2024 | The Merging Titans: Legends and ASM Global Unite for a New Era in Live Events | In a bold move that reshapes the landscape of live events, Legends has acquired ASM Global. This merger creates a powerhouse in the world of premium experiences. It’s a marriage of ambition and expertise, a union that promises to elevate fa... |
23.08.2024 | Legends Acquires ASM Global | Share
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16.08.2024 | The Rise of Alternative Investments: Music and Insurance Markets in Focus | In the ever-evolving landscape of finance, alternative investments are making waves. Two recent transactions highlight this trend: HarbourView Equity Partners' acquisition of music assets and Leading Group's merger with Healthcare AI Acquis... |
16.08.2024 | Leading Group, an Insurance Channel Specialist in China, to be Publicly Listed through a Merger with Healthcare AI Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: HAIA) | NEW YORK, Aug. 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading Group Limited ("LEADING"), a licensed digital insurance broker operating in the Insurance Services segment in China as an Insurance Channel Specialist, and Healthcare AI Acquisition ... |
29.07.2024 | Egypt’s fintech MNT-Halan raised $157.5 M funding for expansion | Notable in Egypt’s FinTech scene, MNT-Halan closed a big funding round a few months ago, raising $157.5 million in total.
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) contributed $40 million of this most recent capital infusion; the remainin... |
03.07.2024 | Citibox's Groundbreaking Approach to E-commerce Deliveries in Spain | Citibox, a pioneering Spanish startup, has recently secured a substantial €80 million in debt funding to further expand its innovative smart mailbox network across Spain. This significant financial milestone not only propels Citibox towards... |
02.07.2024 | Citibox raises €80M to fill Spain with smart mailboxes | Citibox has closed the largest bond issue by a startup in Spain. The leading technology platform in smart mailbox solutions for the delivery and return of ecommerce parcels, has just raised €80M in debt led by international funds Growth Cre... |
30.05.2024 | How this Houston innovator is using his personal connection to ALS fuel his fight for a cure | We can never predict how our lives will turn out, but then maybe some of us can. Genetic testing showed that I, like my grandfather, aunt, uncle and father before me, would most likely die of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, more commonly kno... |
16.05.2024 | Biden Order to Halt China-Tied Bitcoin Mine Beside Nuke Base Came as U.S. Firm Just Bought it | CleanSpark had just finished hailing the benefits of its purchase of a Wyoming crypto-mining site when the White House declared that the current operation was a national security threat that must be halted.
The company says it was unaware o... |
08.05.2024 | Recall campaigns produce unusual time in D.C. politics | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
It's an unusual time in D.C. politics, where recall campaigners are collecting thousands of signatures in hopes of achieving the unprecedented: booting out two sitting council members, Charles Allen a... |
08.04.2024 | Legal Eagles: Understanding the Importance of Lawyers in Various Matters | Share
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Lawyers often come to mind when considering the pillars that uphold our society, ensuring justice and fairness. These legal eagles, with their sharp minds and keen understanding of the law, play a ... |
05.04.2024 | Rubrik’s IPO filing reveals an AI governance committee. Get used to it. | Tucked into Rubrik’s IPO filing this week — between the parts about employee count and cost statements — was a nugget that reveals how the data management company is thinking about generative AI and the risks that accompany the new tech: Ru... |
27.03.2024 | Commercial UAV Expo Announces the 2024 Advisory Board Members | Advisory Board Announced
Commercial UAS industry leaders will provide guidance for landmark 10th edition by serving on Commercial UAV Expo Advisory Board
PORTLAND, Maine, March 27, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Organizers of Commercial UAV Exp... |
12.03.2024 | Clareity24 Recap: From AI and cybersecurity to legal eagles and legends, this sold-out conference had it all | Kevin Greene, Executive, General Manager of CoreLogic’s Real Estate Solutions
With a new venue, fresh, cutting-edge content, a stellar lineup of industry experts, thought leaders, and legends – plus a sellout crowd featuring the Who’s Who o... |
24.10.2023 | GE Research partners with Voxeljet on a $14.9M DoE grant to advance 3D printing for clean energy | GE Research has partnered with binder jet 3D printer manufacturer Voxeljet as part of the U.S. Department of Energy‘s $14.9 million award.
The primary objective of this partnership is to advance the development and commercialization of a la... |
02.10.2023 | Voxeljet pursuing potential merger as part of “strategic alternatives” review | Time is running out! Nominate now for the 3D Printing Industry Awards 2023.
Binder jet 3D printer manufacturer voxeljet has initiated a formal review process to evaluate “strategic alternatives for the company.”
These strategic alternatives... |
04.05.2023 | DEA seeks to temporarily extend COVID telehealth prescribing rules | The Drug Enforcement Administration has asked the White House for more time to finalize draft rules that proposed reinstating stricter limits requiring doctors to evaluate patients in-person before prescribing certain drugs — like Adderall ... |
27.06.2022 | California judge upholds a case against Pinterest over a marketer’s contribution to initial concepts | Last week, a California judge dismissed Pinterest’s motion to dismiss a case over a marketer’s claim that she wasn’t compensated for her ideas that helped form the company. However, Judge Richard Seabolt removed the company co-founder Paul ... |
28.05.2021 | Eye injections causing blindness? FDA’s stem cell clinic crackdown readies for action | Beginning next week, the FDA will officially start a long-awaited crackdown on stem cell clinics hawking unproven treatments that have no intention of going through the official process of testing their products in clini... |
05.02.2021 | Meet 7 diversity leaders who are fighting for equality and inclusion in Big Law at firms like Baker McKenzie and White & Case | Yusuf Zakir of Davis Wright Tremaine and Sylvia James of Winston & Strawn. Davis Wright Tremaine, Winston & Strawn This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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25.11.2020 | From CeFi To DeFi: How Banking And Investing Are Evolving At Warp Speed | Warp Speed Service - New DeFi Working Group To Assist Sector Developmentgetty |
24.10.2020 | An inside look at how Big Law firm Perkins Coie built up a diverse attorney base, winning major clients like Microsoft and Intel | Law An inside look at how Big Law firm Perkins Coie built up a diverse attorney base, winning major clients like Microsoft and Intel
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21.10.2020 | Securing the Critical Minerals Supply Chain | From the military to the technology sector, various American institutions and industries play a role in maintaining U.S. economic and national security. While the finished products associated with defense and technology, like aircraft engin... |
22.07.2020 | A Seminal Moment For Cryptoassets – The EU’s Proposed Framework For A Market In Crypto Assets | Photo Illustration by Budrul Chukrut/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesLightRocket via Getty Images |
30.08.2019 | GDPR and Brexit -- Is your cloud provider ready for the UK 'being treated like a third country'? | The UK government has always maintained that following Brexit, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will be absorbed into UK law. This means that there will be no material changes to the data protection rules that ... |
05.08.2019 | Is the Threat of ‘Fake Science’ Real? | In the early 1980s, Soviet intelligence began Operation Infektion—a campaign to erode trust in the U.S. government by orchestrating a series of scientific papers and news articles arguing that the U.S. government created the HIV/AIDS virus.... |
26.01.2019 | Has the fight over privacy changed at all in 2019? | Few issues divide the tech community quite like privacy. Much of Silicon Valley’s wealth has been built on data-driven advertising platforms, and yet, there remain constant concerns about the invasiveness of those platforms.
Such concerns h... |
03.10.2018 | HKMA Explores Suptech, The Overlooked Missing Piece of The Smart Banking Picture | It is often said that fintech is one of the most regulated tech sectors in the world, and for good reason. There are dire consequences to any developing tech going wrong (Facebook’s recent privacy scandal comes to mind), but straits are par... |
23.10.2017 | The Travel Ban and the Rational Basis Test | Earlier this week, Judge Derrick K. Watson of the U.S. District Court in Hawaii concluded that President Donald Trump’s Sept. 24, 2017 proclamation will likely be found to be illegal. Following the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals opinion in ... |
13.03.2017 | The Legality of the 3/6/17 Executive Order, Part II: The Due Process Clause Analysis | On March 6, 2017, President Trump issued a new executive order on immigration that superseded an order he signed on January 27. For an in-depth discussion on the first order, please see my two-part series on Lawfare (Part I and Part II) and... |
12.03.2017 | The Legality of the 3/6/17 Executive Order, Part I: The Statutory and Separation of Powers Analyses | On March 6, 2017, President Trump issued a new executive order on immigration that superseded an order he signed on January 27. For an in-depth discussion on the first order, please see my two-part series on Lawfare (Part I and Part II) and... |
12.12.2016 | Hackathon in support of LGBT+ rights provides solutions to the problem of hate-crime data and evidence collection globally | Hidden as a contact within the social messaging service Snapchat, the winning concept allows users to upload images and videos, directly connecting with lawyers and activists.
London, December 12, 2016 – LexisNexis announced the winning des... |
06.09.2016 | What’s next for the U.S. drone market? | Following a major milestone for the domestic drone industry last week, industry insiders are expecting a big uptick in dollars invested in U.S. drone-tech companies — just maybe not an immediate one.
As we previously reported, the U.S. Depa... |
23.08.2016 | A List of Female Technology Policy Experts | Update: That escalated quickly. This list started with 15 names of women with insight on a particular issue of law and technology policy. In just over 24 hours, we have over 230 names of a wide variety of experts and over 100 more not yet a... |
19.07.2016 | Have you ever stopped to really think about the #InternetOfToys? | You’ve probably spared a minute or two (at least) of thought for the impact that your wearables and smart-home devices have on your own privacy. But what about the impact all this new technology has on your child’s privacy?
What are the ben... |
19.08.2015 | Lisa Ellman is a Total Pro on FAA Drone Regulations | You know what’s incredibly confusing? Drone regulations.
It’s not that they’re impossible to understand, it's just that there are enough nuances and subtleties to sink the Titanic. Sure, there’s a website called Know Before you Fly that det... |
20.11.2014 | Following Pressure From U.S. Senate, Uber Hires Data Privacy Expert And Legal Aid To Review Company’s Policies | In light of growing concerns around Uber’s ethics and the way it manages customers’ personal data, the company announced this morning that it has brought on data privacy expert Harriet Pearson and her team at Hogan Lovells to help it conduc... |
13.06.2014 | FDA Says It Is Taking The First Amendment "Seriously" . . . Good To Know | After a long gestation period, some influential officials with the U.S. Food & Drug Administration – including chief counsel Elizabeth Dickinson and CDER director Janet Woodcock – recently said they are considering the First Amendment c... |
09.04.2014 | Yale Symposium: Unpacking NSA's Global Problem | On Sunday, the Yale Information Society Project held an excellent symposium on the international policy implications of “Big Data.” I took part in the event (see livestream here), which touched on many topics of interest, including (unsurpr... |
03.12.2013 | N.S.A.: “Not (So) Secret Anymore” | The National Security Agency is down in the dumps. It’s used to being heralded for brilliance. It can’t understand how millions of Americans, not to mention foreigners, think it’s engaged in voracious, useless, and unlawful eavesdropping ar... |
04.05.2012 | 7 things to consider for your company’s social media policy | Plan for a crisis. You will have one. Companies need to develop social media policies in order to be sufficiently prepared to respond when things happen. Comments can be picked up and spread so fast on the Internet that companies have a ver... |
12.08.2011 | CRO M&A: How pharma drives it and why private equity is interested in it | Consolidation among clinical research organizations has been ongoing for many years. The pace has picked up in 2011 and pharmas are driving it. Big pharma has been looking for ways to slash costs, feeding the outsourcing movement that has l... |
- | Drug pricing myths and realities | Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli and his notorious $750 pill have brought new media attention and public outcry to the already contentious issue of drug pricing. But Beth Roberts, partner in the health group at Hogan Lovells, argue... |
- | Five hot topics affecting health care providers today | Jeff Schneider is a partner in the health regulatory practice group at Hogan Lovells, focusing on transactions and regulatory counseling involving health care providers, such as hospitals, academic medical centers, skilled nursing facilitie... |
- | Digital health and the future of medicine | Until now, modern medicine has left patients to manage many aspects of their treatment regimen without a physician able to monitor progress or adherence. But that’s likely to change. Advances in device technology and access to an endless st... |
- | CRO M&A: How pharma drives it and why private equity is interested in it | INC Research’s June acquisition of Trident Clinical Research didn’t generate the same headlines among clinical research organizations as the company’s $232 million Kendle purchase. But it’s just as illustrative of what’s driving M&A tre... |
- | In the EU, drug and device design can influence acceptance and pricing | Companies looking to market and sell pharmaceuticals, medical devices, or other treatment products and methods in the European Union face several different hurdles. The first is called marketing authorization, which is regulatory approval o... |
- | 7 things to consider for your company’s social media policy | Pharmaceutical and medical device companies seem to view social media with the alternating fascination and horror of watching American Idol. But even if they have no wish to participate, companies still need to craft a social media policy a... |
- | What’s in store for the Affordable Care Act and drug pricing policy under the Trump administration? | The Trump administration has been vocal in its criticism of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and already has worked with the Republican-controlled Congress to begin rolling back key provisions of the legislation. The promised repeal and repla... |
- | Life sciences firms found particularly vulnerable to cyber attack | While many of the year’s most highly publicized data breaches have involved high-profile consumer brands like T-Mobile, Target, and Uber, thousands of other companies are targeted each year. Health care isn’t immune – Anthem, Premera Blue C... |
- | Protecting IP in the era of 3D printing | 3D printing has emerged as a growing force in industries as diverse as retail, automotive, and food science. As the technology takes hold in the medical device market, it brings profound changes to product manufacturing — and to the pace of... |
- | Measures of success: How value-based pricing may change the pharmaceutical industry | Adoption of value-based pricing, where drug prices are linked to real-world outcomes rather than on a per-pill or per-treatment basis, will have a profound impact on the pharmaceutical industry. And with the Centers for Medicare and Medicai... |
- | A data-driven era: Why digital tools are critical to life sciences players | The recent proliferation of digital health tools such as wearable remote monitoring devices and smartphone apps is leading to major changes in health management. While the streams of user data generated by these tools gives manufacturers, p... |
- | Deal structures in life sciences: Year in review | By Asher Rubin
2016 began with the promise of more, and more significant, consolidation among global mega-pharmaceutical companies. But the year ended with more of a ‘whimper,’ as industry leaders and innovators watchfully wait for the Brex... |
- | Lower regulatory barriers may accelerate innovation for drug and device manufacturers | While the FDA has in recent years relaxed regulations in certain areas — such as generic drug approval — advances like innovative new combination products (the use of a device and drug) continue to face stiff resistance from the agency. The... |