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Better Way? co-hosts Zach Coseglia and Hui Chen preview some trends for the New Year, from where artificial intelligence (AI) will take us to how data and story-telling may help humans and organizations be more effective. Start the year with some provocative thoughts on technology, data, and culture and the role we can play in using and shaping them.

On this episode of Ropes & Gray’s California Law for Asset Managers podcast series, asset management partner Catherine Skulan, corporate partner and global ESG, CSR & business and human rights practice head Michael Littenberg and counsel Marc Rotter discuss three new climate and greenhouse gas bills recently signed into California law: AB 1305, SB 261 and SB 253. Each law creates new public disclosure requirements about climate-related issues that may impact asset managers and their portfolio companies.

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 roles at Hewlett-Packard, Clorox and Glad Products. Marjorie describes herself as a “person who looks for opportunities.” Along those lines, she shares helpful networking strategies for lawyers at all stages of their careers.

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! 

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 corporate generalist, he explains the “quarterbacking” skill that is essential to his job. George also shares a valuable (and easy) thing outside counsel can do to cultivate closer relationships with their in-house colleagues. 

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 well.

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.

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 will get you thinking!

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 of marijuana; regulatory and legislative developments related to psychedelic drugs; litigation and enforcement developments involving opioids and ADHD medications; and enforcement trends and investigation best practices for diversion incidents at health care providers.

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, counsel in London, are joined by London partner Rohan Massey, a leader of the firm’s data, privacy & cybersecurity practice, and special guest Sajai Singh, a partner at J. Sagar Associates in Bangalore, to discuss the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, India’s long-awaited comprehensive data protection law.