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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.

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., as they discuss FDA’s proposal to phase out the enforcement discretion policy it has historically applied to most LDTs. 

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” can inform how we understand organizations and behaviors.

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. 

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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 effective training programs.

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 internal issues at Bain, and what advice he’s seeking from outside counsel in doing so.